Hill, R2022-06-122022-06-122022-062022-06The Geminis Journal, 13 (2), 46-58. DOI: 10.53450/2179-1465.RG.2022v13i2p46-582179-1465https://hdl.handle.net/10292/15216The article introduces photography practice as a practice-led research methodology, highlighting photographic conventions and methods as key research approaches. To illustrate these ideas I will foreground examples of my photography practice and other practitioners’. My focus is on research that explores place-based topics in which photography plays the role of generating thinking and place-making. The article positions photography as a complete practice-led research methodology within the academy, contextualising key historical practices and moments in order to propose an expanded model of place representation. I will trace the advancements of photography and its uses during the colonial period, the introduction to landscape and later the progression into tourism photography. As a counter approach to these frameworks, I propose a more nuanced iterative model of place representation capable of rendering multiple place imaginaries. This allows visual artists, practice-led researchers and ethnographers to expand existing research agendas and methodological approaches to place and place-making.This journal offers immediate free access to its content, following the principle that making scientific knowledge available to the public free of charge provides greater world democratization of knowledge.Methodology; Photography; Place-based; Place-making; Practice-ledJournal ArticleOpenAccess10.53450/2179-1465.rg.2022v13i2p46-58