Field photography is a not less important aspect of an ethnologist’s expeditionary work than interviewing respondents. The ability to find, photograph and introduce new visual sources into scientific circulation is closely related to the topic of research, planning and logistics of journeys, as well as to the degree of immersion of the scientist in the cultural landscape of the visited territory, his own psychological readiness to “feel the place”, based on personal sensitivity, knowledge gleaned from scholarly sources at the planning stage of the trip, data heard from the carriers of tradition and observations made directly in the field. Also, photos, like all expedition content, are the basis for understanding, interpreting and introducing facts into ethnological studies in the form of rich descriptions and new visual sources created at the cameral stage of investigation, for example, map schemes of names and realities of folk culture. The paper is devoted to our own experience in collecting and introducing into scientific texts field visual sources recorded during 5 ethnographic expeditions in 2013–2016 to the border territories of Ukraine with the Republic of Moldova – Mohyliv-Podilskyi, Yampilskyi, Pishchanskyi districts of Vinnytsya region and Kodymskyi district of Odesa region. During route and bush research trips, 52 settlements of the actual boundary strip were visited, more than 60 hours of audio recordings (1,200 pages of transcribed texts) were made from 75 respondents, and more than 1,000 photographs were taken. The author emphasizes the importance of photography as a “chronicle” of a personal entry into the field, a basis for revealing the specifics of the cultural landscape of the territory through the fixation of its main markers (type of settlement construction, housing, folk occupations, crafts, clothing, etc.), notation of significant cultural artifacts – family relics, photocopying pages of family photo albums as indicators of individual and collective memory for the purpose of their further introduction into ethnological studies.