Abstract: Existing academic literature is seldom related to social work visual practice and joint supervision. After defining these two concepts, this paper points out that joint supervision in social work visual practice has four characteristics, namely multi-discipline, periodicity, diversity of practitioner's knowledge and complementary cooperation among supervisors. Taking the production process of “Attending School” as an example, the practice process of joint supervision can be divided into 3 stages, namely topic selection and elaboration, shooting and publicity, producing and inheritance. At each stage, joint supervision is confronted with different supervision objectives, contents, forms and roles. Joint supervision has achieved certain results in the following four aspects: service objects, education department (school), practitioner and social influence. Meanwhile, the joint supervision also needs to be improved in terms of cooperation among supervisors, allocation of supervision tasks, positioning of supervisory roles and supervision methods.

Key words: social work, visual practice, joint supervision