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Over the last decade, a number of calls have been made to expand the catalogue of social science research methods. As John Law noted 10 years ago, methods of inquiry often fail to catch the texture of the world and “talk of ‘method’still tends to summon up a relatively limited repertoire of responses”(Law 2004, 3). At the same time, there has been an upsurge in the popularity of visual methods across the social sciences, and a resurgence of interest in picturing social life that has helped to expand the list of devices and methods that social scientists work with (Knowles and Sweetman 2004; Pink 2012; Prosser 1998). But it is not my intention to promote video as a visual method—this would be to limit its qualities. With its sound and its movement, video exceeds the visual realm. It might better be thought of as a sensory method, not simply because it blends what we see with what we hear, but because it evokes a …