摘要: This chapter provides an overview of the debates and practices that shape visual research ethics. We outline the requirements and expectations institutional ethics review boards legal frameworks, for example, regarding filming photographing in public issues copyright. contend that requirements should not be sole determinants when making decisions about ethics, but rather must situated within research context and accommodated in a researcher’s individual moral framework. suggest that visual methods, data they produce, challenge some ethical practices associated with word- number-based research, particular around informed consent, anonymity, confidentiality, and dissemination strategies. Overall, we argue that are contested, dynamic and contextual and, as such, best approached through detailed understanding of concrete, everyday situations which they applied. The title this chapter ‘Visual at crossroads’ is metaphorical, indicating visual research has reached important juncture signifying it is timely to take stock consider future directions practice.