In this presentation, I discuss photo-walks that 9th grade students conducted in their hanging out spaces as part of a geography learning project in Helsinki. Photography is an everyday practice while hanging out for many young people. This was the main reason why I decided to use it as a ‘mobile method’ for approaching the geographies of this ‘mobile’ phenomenon. Movement and playful immersion with the environment are characteristic to hanging out. Based on experiences of conducting my own photo-walks, I believe the practice of walking and taking photographs can serve as a tool for ‘knowing as we go’. Here, photography is inspired by the mundane action of drifting in the city. The aim of photo-walking was to encourage the students to reflect on their everyday hanging out spaces and practices. I discuss photo-walking as a process that can sometimes open up new pedagogical spaces of enchantment by paying attention to experience as it is experienced. During the photo-walks, learning happened with the spaces of hanging out. In contrast to common understandings of learning, this learning with the city is non-instrumental: it is making the familiar unfamiliar by paying attention to the particular in everyday spaces. Not all students were initially excited to conduct their photo-walks, but eventually the project proved out to be fun and thought provoking. Photography gave the students means of re-visualizing their city in a way that mattered to them. Reflecting on taken-for-granted, everyday things and spaces generated new associations and strenghtened the students’ geographical skills.

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