Building on the experience matured with the Images of Care Collective the present paper reflects on the possible entanglements between the anthropology of care and visual anthropology. The collective was born with the intent of moving beyond oversimplifying distinctions between researchers and practitioners as well as between visual and text-based work. We wanted to bring together different strands of critical engagement with the notion of care and visual studies, exploring how they could mutually instigate each other to renewal and critical thinking. In our approach care is intended as an “unstable concept” (Buch 2015) and our aim has been to explore the extent to which an attention to the visual could open new spaces of reflection on this inclusive concept. Simultaneously we also wanted to expand the terrain of visual research, giving further room, through its application in the broadly defined field of care, to the role of multi-sensory engagement, of engagement with the human and beyond (and hence of animals, plants and technologies). Entering the field through a definition of visual culture as a terrain characterised by dialogues between biology, culture and politics, we aimed to provide a platform for a collective interrogation of visual assumptions – tacit or explicit- that shape manifold ways in which we craft the stories of care. We wanted to connect the field of care research with broader attention to the world of the senses, to imagination and affectivity. With the present paper we want to reflect on our experiences in setting up the collective. Starting by setting out the theoretical framework that we have built in our work we want to share our experiences reflecting also on how the format of the collective as a creative methodology.