
Dr. Chalfen has authored four other books and over 130 scholarly papers on visual communication/anthropology/sociology and contributed to the emergence of a medically relevant applied visual anthropology. He has undertaken fieldwork with the Navajo in Arizona, African American and Anglo American teenagers in Philadelphia, Japanese American families in Los Angeles, CA and Gallup, New Mexico as well as Japanese families living in Tokyo. Currently he is completing a book, Snapping and Wrapping: Essays on Japanese Home Media focused on the pictorial features of Japanese vernacular photography and related visual forms. He continues to lecture internationally having taught summer sessions in Italy, Japan and most recently at the University of Antwerp, Belgium focused on applying visual research methods in urban contexts.