Storytelling and the Healing Power of Photography: Rita Leistner’s My Space Project
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The aim of the article is to analyze the artistic, social project titled My Space. Stories from Inside the Downtown Eastside Vancouver, created by Canadian photographer Rita Leistner. Through her photographs and interviews, the artist presents the everyday life of a group of drug and alcohol addicted residents of Astoria and Balmoral hotels. The article is based on photographs taken by Leistner and the statements of project participants – both acquired from the artist’s Webpage. Bearing in mind Leistner’s intentions, we tend to present her story in the storytelling narrative. We treat that approach as a useful tool for qualitative data analysis as well as insightful framework to represent a story. This approach has worked well so far in the study of culture and art. Thus, we focus on the content and a form of a story while uncovering its threads looking at it from different dimensions interpreted through the prism of individuals to whom the story relates. We look at the way in which the space occupied by the heroes of the story is being photographed by Leistner, who creates a medium allowing the narrative to connect the present with the past and the future. That medium plays an important role in building a community.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.015 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.004 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".