Shannon Turner
visual anthropologist
Endlessly curious, dynamic, grounded.
I am captivated by the beauty and strangeness of the everyday, and deeply attuned to the many layers of human and non-human stories that encircle us at any given moment.
I strive to bring this sensibility to my research and creative projects.
I’m an independent artist-researcher with a visual anthropology background. I use experimental, participatory, and sensory methods, explore and communicate through research, writing, and cultural consultancy, as well as multimedia artistic practice
At the heart of my practice is a love of storytelling and a desire to create genuine moments of connection. collaborative engagements with human and more-than-human bodies and dances in disciplinary margins.
From the pre-production stages of documentary projects to applied, socially-engaged research and consulting. Working from a strong foundation in ethnographic and sensory methodologies to dig deeper into the stories that surround us.
Writing and editing in research and academic contexts, popular media, and creative industries. Specialising in art and film texts. As an anthropologist, I have a keen eye and a particularly acute sense of appropriate style, voice, and tone.
Coming from a background in the art department for narrative film, now working primarily in experimental documentary, sensory research and artistic practice, I am attentive to details and prize the ability of image to tell a story.