The member of the SPC Spatial project team Ludmila Wladyniak participated in the conference Cities After Transition, which took place between 18-22 September in Riga. She gave a presentation entitled “Talking about left-behind (urban) places. The methodological advantages and challenges of photo[1]elicitation group interviews”. Her paper discusses the methodological advantages, potential developments and challenges in talking about difficult stigma-prone topics with people with lower cultural capital, living in the “left behind places”. At the same time she points out that using visuals, through photo-elicitation method, allows people to talk openly and without fear of judgment about their own perspectives on the sensitive topics. At the same time, it reduces the power imbalance, usually present at the most qualitative research sites.