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Sometimes, if you are lucky, many of the steps below might not be needed.

The common theme throughout my methodology below is that each point aims to reduce your geographical search area.

In this post, I will showcase my thought process in geolocating an image with little additional information by adding a dash of creativity. While there are tutorials and examples out there using similar methodologies for geolocation, more often than not their case study examples are either very specialised (think Bellingcat, or Forensic Architecture) or often simplified for the purpose of the tutorial and might not accurately reflect the types of images you come across regularly in your investigation. This methodology isn’t one-size-fits-all, and there could be easier ways to identify the location that I may have overlooked or not considered below. Feel free to attempt to geolocate this image yourself before reading the following. The exercise and method I’ll be sharing here is based on an image we were given to geolocate during one of the sessions.

NOTE: During an Exposing the Invisible (ETI) Institute for Emerging Investigators in May 2021, I – Robin Taylor - attended several sessions on using OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) techniques to uncover and verify various information traces online.

There is, however, a basic methodology I follow that works for me in many cases. The variety of factors that affect the amount of information contextualising your image means there are no specific templates to help you solve the question of where it was taken. The difficulty of geolocation can be based on several factors, such as what information is stored in the image’s metadata, by whom and where it was posted, the content of the image itself, or the quality and resolution of an image – to name a few.

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