“Agora sei o que você faz, você conta histórias!”: notas etnográficas sobre um Diário de Campo Visual Público, alteridade, colonialidade e posicionalidade

Abstract

In 2019 the idea of a "Public Visual Field Diary" came up. The initial goal was to create an account on a photo-sharing social media (Instagram – profile @diariodecampovisual) and every day post a picture. In a field carried out in the first semester of 2019 in Canto do Buriti (Piauí, Brazil) about the course of life, 90 photographs were produced and shared in 90 days. Some people began to follow the photographs on the social network, such as teachers, city residents, family members, students, researchers, the media and politicians. New questions emerged beyond the initial intention to "share" or "return" photographs, but to make them "public" with the temporality of the research with initial reflections about the field, the relatives-interlocutors and anthropology in a broad sense. This article proposes to reflect on the artisanal process of creating a "Public Visual Field Diary" on the internet and its dilemmas, controversies, benefits, limits and potential.