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Rémi Coignard-Friedman Recherche qualitative · Formation & Coaching

Sociography

Telling and showing the social differently

The sociological eye joined to photography and video. Another language for the same realities — with a wider reach than journals allow, and an audience that needs no research training to understand.

Photography

A qualitative study produces articles few people will read. The same material — faces, places, gestures, voices — can also produce an image, a film, a photo essay. This is not popularization: it is another way of knowing, with its own demands, and a reach academic text does not achieve.

This work feeds directly into my teaching. You learn a great deal about interviewing by filming, about framing a question by framing an image, and about reporting findings by trying to be understood outside the circle of peers.

The forms this work takes

Four registers, one way of looking.

Photography

Photography

Documentary series born of research fieldwork. The frame as a methodological choice, not an illustration.

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Video

Short films and recordings. What movement and voice say about a situation, and what transcription loses.

Photo essay

Photo essays

Field narratives, in Europe, Canada and West Africa, where image and text move forward together.

Interviews / blog

Blog & interviews

Published conversations with the people research usually describes in the third person.

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