Client: Intel Digital Health Group
Ethnographic Research Video
Role: Visual Ethnographer

Living With C.O.P.D.: An ethnographic research documentary for an applied purpose. Made under my previous last name of Benner

Photo Credit: Mary Anne (Benner) Funk

Through their personal stories, Mary Anne focused on successful strategies used to cope with the illness by showing techniques used to manage the disease daily and any technology used for communication and dispensing medication.

Photo Credit: Mary Anne (Benner) Funk

With the participant’s consent, visual methods were used during the interviews and additional visits to help further research efforts and to create a series of short ethnographic documentaries that were used to educate the viewer about the disease, the daily struggles, and what can be done daily to manage the disease.

Mary Anne “Benner” Funk with Angela
A moment with Angela, one of the participants from the Better Breather’s Group who shared their story of Living With C.O.P.D. Angela has become a great friend

Each participant had control of when the camera was on or not during the interviews and additional visits.