This is a field situation study of a community group originating from Rocinha and Vila Canoas, slums in Rio de Janeiro, that has been meeting for more than two decades, originally motivated by one of the assistance projects of the Paróquia de São Conrado. The main goal that gave support to the intended objectives was the attempt to demonstrate the articulation between the role of image as a technical device, its place in the mediation of the experience with the community and the construction of knowledge as one of its possible effects. For this purpose, it was elected as the axis of the conduction of the investigation, the concept of exotopy (Bakhtin), since it indicates that the vision that the subject has of himself is constituted by the look and the word of the other, considering its spatial position. Other theoretical subsidies have been taken into consideration, in the sense of pointing out the contribution of a critical reading of the contemporary organization, in trying to understand the construction of contemporary subjectivity. Starting from a look-listening derived from the insertion of the researcher in the field of the investigation, dialogues between the participants of the group have been gathered, in which it was pointed out the modality of discourse construction in an alteritarian context of dialogical production. At the encounter with the situation/object of study, the idea was to give voice to the participants, in the sense of focusing the attention on the production and also on the possibilities of each one to assume a critical position in relation to the demands made by the community and in addition to build projects that end in shared action. From the reading of the images produced and the dialogues obtained it was found that the image in the discourse of the community proved to be a way of intervention in many aspects: it brought visibility to each participant, it set up discursivity in a critical way about each subject, about the relational context, about the history, referred to the existential course and the contemporary way of life, to a dignified life and last, the hope that the video will wake up interest and responsibility in the instances that detain the power of decision, also affected by the content of the discourses.