PEACE PHOTOGRAPHY: A GUIDE
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‘Peace Photography: A Guide’ explores localised, participatory, and community-engaged peace photography methods where people use images and image-making to foster peace, dialogue, and non-violent civil resistance. Drawing on academic research and practice from around the world, it critically discusses the ethics and practicalities of visual peace methods and features 26 peace photography activities. We hope this resource will be useful for community, peace, and visual practitioners and researchers who are interested in exploring how photography can be harnessed to transform conflict, navigate difference, foster healing and agency, build visibility and connection, and spark peace imaginaries.
This guide is a product of Imaging Peace, a Leverhulme Fellowship research project led by Dr. Tiffany Fairey.
‘Peace Photography: A Guide’ is co-authored by Tiffany Fairey and Ingrid Guyon and draws on contributions from peace photography practitioners and projects in 21 countries with diverse experiences of peace and conflict. The images of these projects are featured throughout. You can view these projects here.
We hope this publication will feed the imaginations of peace photography thinkers and doers everywhere.
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The Authors
Tiffany Fairey is a Senior Research Fellow based in the Department of War Studies, King’s College London. She is a specialist in participatory visual methods and photovoice with over 20 years’ experience working on projects all over the world. As Co-Founder and former Co-Director of the award-winning UK charity PhotoVoice, she pioneered ethical practice in participatory image-making. Her academic research focuses on arts-based peacebuilding and the role of images and image-making in building peace and dialogue. She completed her PhD in Visual Sociology at Goldsmiths College London and has been published widely. Her work has been recognised with various awards, including the Royal Photographic Society’s Hood Medal for outstanding advance in photography for public service and a Leverhulme Fellowship. Her forthcoming book, Imaging Peace, will be published in 2025.
Ingrid Guyon is a photographer, self-shooting director, and participatory visual media practitioner with over 15 years of experience in designing and implementing community-engaged, participatory, and collaborative audiovisual projects, trainings, and production within the education, museums, NGOs, international development, and peacebuilding sectors. Born where Nicephore Niepce took the first world photograph and raised in Arles with Les Rencontres de la Photographie, she then graduated from London College of Communication in Professional Photography Practice & Video Production and later in Social Anthropology from Birkbeck University. After working with PhotoVoice, she founded Fotosynthesis, a social enterprise expert in participatory audiovisual processes, audiovisual education, ethics, and production. She is also an associate of Insightshare, a leading company in participatory video.
Contributors
This research has involved working with practitioners from all over the world to research diverse peace photography initiatives and draws on all of their knowledge and experience, and their images are showcased throughout.
Further information on these contributing projects is provided here.
