Meetings with the research: an experience on healthcare, time and photography

Abstract

This study aims to discuss the work in healthcare
sector connected to the time and photography,
in order to stimulate the thinking about the
work by dedicating time to look and reflect about
itself. The research was conducted with workers
of a Basic Health Unit (UBS) in the city of Porto
Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul state. We discussed how
the production of photographic images can function
as a stimulus strategy for viewing and thinking
about the work that is often institutionalized and
case-hardened by the daily difficulties related to
the practice of basic health care. We highlight the
strategies promoted by the intervention research
and for the photographic intervention, producing
an experience for both the researchers and the
subjects of the territory, mixing themselves over
the images production, leading to encounters and
allowing the production of process analyzers. This
research allowed work views and thinking, shifting
the roles and calling for a support of a view, a time
to think.