Answered By: Theresa Bell (she/her/hers)
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APA Style (7th ed.)

If the personal photographs are yours and they haven't been published elsewhere, "no citation or copyright attribution is required in the figure note" (American Psychological Association [APA], 2020, p. 230).

If the photographs were taken by someone else, you'll need to obtain copyright permission to use them in your work, note the permissions in the figure notes, and reference the sources of the photographs based on the usual APA Style rules for the resource type (e.g., journal article, book). See pages 390 and 391 in the APA Style manual for copyright attribution templates and example copyright attributions. See the figure notes in Sample Figures and in pages 234-250 in the APA Style manual for example copyright attributions.

Please remember to format the photographs in your document using the APA rules for figures; see Figure Setup for an overview of figures, page 225-231 in the APA Style manual for detailed information on figure construction, and page 232 in the APA Style manual for a checklist.

Reference

American Psychological Association. (2020). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.). https://doi.org/10.1037/0000165-000