Sue: Using In-the-Picture I think is only a positive thing really. I don’t see too many negatives. It’s another tool like everything else, but I think it’s very valid, and I think it’s really important to as a practitioner sit back and watch more. We’re sometimes too busy trying to get things out of the child. And I think actually we’ve got a lot to learn by just sitting back and I think that’s really important. As I said before taking the photographs sometimes can be tricky, only because as soon as the child sees the camera they want the camera, or the phone I should say, but it doesn’t mean to say there’s not ways around that. And I think the thing is not to put barriers up thinking oh this can’t happen or that’s too difficult, maybe to be open-minded about it and keep it there in the background knowing it’s another tool to be used. 

[Children talking] 

Sue: I think if I’ve planned for a certain approach, which using In-the-Picture is and if that’s what I’m going to do that session, I think it’s not a problem fitting it in for the hour. Often we overrun anyway, it’s just the way it is, and I don’t actually think the time, you know, it would be a problem, because it’s just what you’re focusing on for that session. And maybe the next time I would go, I would do it differently. And I think children accept pretty much what you’re doing. 

[Children talking] 

Sue: I think that families get used to you working in a certain way, for sure, but I think if you know that you’re, I think you have feeling inside that you might like to use this approach, so you’d probably prepare them beforehand. Ring and have a chat on the phone to say I’d like to try this, would that be OK, so that they know when you turn up that that’s a slightly different approach. I think when I first visit my families it’s something sometimes that I’ve mentioned about that I may during the time I’m with them now and again do a first-person narrative observation just to see how things are going and see what comes out of that. And they’re usually very happy with whichever approach we want to take really. 

[Children talking] 

Margje: If you do it in the original way, you would really write from what you think and what you see, opposed to how you would do it now, looking from what the child may think or what their reasons may be for doing something. 

[Children talking] 

Sue: I suppose that sharing In-the-Picture can be a little tricky to explain because it’s not a hard and fast this is how it is. But then we’re maybe all using it in one shape or form. So by reflecting on our maybe practice, you can see actually that we are actually doing some of this without maybe realising sometimes.  

[Children talking] 

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