on the project. However, I often start out by having an interest in a give cultural phenomenon, a group of people or person and their way of life. Photographing is my pass to enter a world else not accessible and a way of documenting and symbolically represent my experience. To (Un)Veil and Envision. Lene Hald Have you found photography to be an effective research tool? Has it uncovered ideas, which have changed the path of your thinking? Most definitely. I am soon starting up a PhD project on visual methods, sociology and fashion studies (a collaboration between KEA-Copenhagen School of Design and Technology and The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts -- The School of Design). I am very excited about that. I believe that photography is an important way to add another level of representation to a research project. It is also a potentially strong way to address socio-cultural issues and themes of race, class, exclusion and empowerment. In a photograph you are able to encode an enormous amount of information, as well as symbolically reflect themes and concepts. In my research project I will be investigating how fashion studies and visual methods can be used as tools to understand, reflect and communicate issues of youth culture and identity construction.