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This special issue draws together researchers who use visual methods to examine different ways of meaning making, and who explore some of the key issues that underpin the use of visual methods. Visual methods are an exciting means of doing psychology, but using them makes salient concerns of process, translation, ethics and representation. We suggest that psychology can usefully learn from more cross-disciplinary work in the field of visual methodology, and cultural studies, sociology, anthropology, arts and humanities disciplines might all provide a fruitful way forward for psychologists wanting to adopt visual methods. Many of the papers presented in this special issue also draw on debates and discussion outside psychology to assist with their work. Psychology can and should learn from the arts and humanities, which have been developing visual literacies for some time (eg,'reading'and analysing painting …