Photographing to Understand: Experience Report and Reflections from the Lens of Work, Management and Subjectivity

Abstract

The present paper starts from the idea that the ways of working have direct implications in the constitution of the person, and is constituted of an experience report referring to a photographic activity developed in discipline of a Postgraduate Program in Administration. It aims to reflect about the use of photography as a lever of theoretical understanding in Administration. Thus, it approaches at Jones's (2005) concept of autoethnography that seeks to weave connections between life and art, experience and theory. The paper presents a theoretical panorama about "photography" and "work, management and subjectivity", which supported the activities carried out in the discipline. We developed reflections based on two narratives about the challenging experience of photographing work and management practices in everyday life. We discuss ways of studying, considering the multiple roles that postgraduate students are challenged in teaching-learning, research and extension contexts. We argue in favor of the interaction of art with scientific production, by understanding that experience led to the look qualification and, therefore, enabled new forms of apprehension of theory in the field.

Keywords

• fotografia
• relato de experiência
• trabalho
• gestão
• subjetividade