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A Peace of My Mind <\/em>is a multimedia arts project, created by American photographer John Noltner, that uses photographic portraits and personal stories to bridge divides and encourage dialogue around important issues.<\/p>\n https:\/\/apomm.org\/about\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Noltner, John. (2021) Portraits of Peace: Searching for Hope in a Divided America<\/em>. Broadleaf Books<\/p>\n Klein, M. (2014). Teaching a Peace of My Mind: An Educational Guide and an a companion text to the exhibition by John Noltner<\/em><\/p>\n Belfast Exposed, Northern Ireland<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Belfast Exposed<\/em> is the leading photographic gallery in Northern Ireland. They have worked on hundreds of community-engaged photography projects with individuals and groups in Belfast and across Northern Ireland.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.belfastexposed.org\/community-work\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Chiapas Photography Project, Mexico<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Chiapas Photography Project (CPP)<\/em> is an indigenous photography program formed in 1992. CPP provides indigenous Maya peoples in Chiapas, Mexico with opportunities for cultural and artistic self-expression through photography, running workshops and an archive.<\/p>\n https:\/\/chiapasphoto.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Colectivo Miradas<\/strong>, Colombia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Colectivo Miradas<\/em> is a collective of photographers formed in 2021 by former guerrillas and community photographers from all over Colombia who have found in photography a tool for reincorporation, reparation, and reconciliation. <\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/colectivomiradas\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@colectivomiradas1704<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Everyday Peace Indicators, Colombia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Everyday Peace Indicators <\/em>(EPI)<\/em> is a peacebuilding organization that works with communities to generate their own indicators of peace. In Colombia, they integrated photovoice with their participatory indicators methods to promote community-level dialogue and make everyday peace visible.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.everydaypeaceindicators.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Fairey, Tiffany, Edwin Alfredo Cubillos Rodriguez, and Manuela Mu\u00f1oz. (2023) \u2018Photography and Everyday Peacebuilding.\u00a0 Examining the Impact of Photographing Everyday Peace in Colombia.\u2019 Peacebuilding<\/em>. https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/21647259.2023.2184099<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Exchanging Perceptions, Northern Ireland<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Exchanging Perception <\/em>is participatory photography dialogue project working with communities living on either side of one of Belfast\u2019s peace walls that mark the boundaries between predominantly Catholic and Protestant neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.belfastinterfaceproject.org\/sites\/default\/files\/publications\/Exchanging%20Perceptions.pdf<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.belfastinterfaceproject.org\/inner-east-outer-west-project<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Feminist Memory Project, Nepal<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n The Feminist Memory Project (FMP)<\/em> was conceived in 2018 by Nepal Picture Library (NPL) as archival campaign to create a permanent photo archive of women\u2019s and feminist movements in Nepal.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.nepalpicturelibrary.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Gurung Kakshapati, N., & Hussey-Smith, K. (2019). An Archival Dialogue: The Nepal Picture Library\u2019s Feminist Memory Project. Photography & Culture<\/em>, 12<\/em>(3), 383\u2013392<\/p>\n Fotosynthesis, worlwide<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Fotosynthesis is a social entreprise based in the United Kingdom and in Spain but working internationally founded in 2009. They specialise in participatory photography, photovoice, community film and ethical photography & audiovidual production. They use images and sound to dialogue, heal, communicate, advocate, give visibility, educate, promote participation, creativity and empathy, foster peace and indiviual and collective change.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.fotosynthesiscommunity.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Inside Out, various countries<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Inside Out<\/em> is a global participatory art project created by the French photographer JR in 2011 that allows community groups to share their stories by displaying large-scale black and white portraits in public spaces.<\/p>\n Inisde Out is JR. Inside Out.<\/em> (2017). Rizzoli International Publications<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.insideoutproject.net\/en\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Interfaith Photovoice, various countries<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Interfaith Photovoice<\/em> brings together people of different faiths and beliefs to develop understanding and empathy through conversations about photographs they have taken using photovoice methodology in the US and internationally.<\/p>\n https:\/\/interfaithphotovoice.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Roman R. Williams, Catherine Holtmann, & William L. Sachs, Sacred Snaps: Photovoice for Interfaith Engagement (Routledge, 2024). <\/span><\/p>\n Lenses of Conflict and Peace, Kenya<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Lenses of Conflict and Peace was a participatory photography project led by Valentina <\/em>Ba\u00fa<\/p>\n in 2014 that sought to open up dialogue between the youth and to create an understanding between (former) enemy groups in <\/em>the Rift Valley of Kenya.<\/p>\n Ba\u00fa, V. (2022) Using Participatory Photography for Peace. A short guide for practitioners.<\/p>\n https:\/\/cnxus.org\/resource\/using-participatory-photography-for-peace-a-short-guide-for-practitioners\/ <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n Ba\u00fa, V. (2015) Participatory Photography for Peace. Using images to open up dialogue after violence, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development<\/em>, Vol.10, No.3, pp.74-88. DOI: 10.1080\/15423166.2015.1050798<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n MIR, Bosnia and Herzegovina<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n MIR<\/em> is an annual youth culture magazine published by the Post Conflict Research Centre (PCRC), a Bosnian peacebuilding organisation. PCRC harnesses creative visual and multi-media to foster a culture of peace and co-existence in Bosnia and Herzegovina.<\/p>\n https:\/\/p-crc.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/balkandiskurs.com\/en\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Fairey, Tiffany. (2023) \u2018Peace Is Possible: The Role of Strategic Narratives in Peacebuilding\u2019. Media, War & Conflict<\/em>\u00a0 https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/17506352231160360<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Odyssey, USA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Odyssey<\/em> is a project, started in 2018 by photographer Brendan Bannon, that uses photography as a tool to help returning USA combat veterans reintegrate back to civilian life.<\/p>\n (2020) Odyssey. Warriors Come Home | Combat Veterans Photograph Life After War<\/em>. CEPA Gallery<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.mostimportantpicture.org\/odyssey<\/a><\/p>\n Open Shutters, Iraq<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Open Shutters Iraq<\/em> was a participatory photography project, led by photographer Eugenie Dolberg, that brought together a group of Iraqi women in Syria to tell their stories.<\/p>\n Dolberg, Eugenie (2010) Open Shutters Iraq<\/em>. Trolley Books<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.liverpool.ac.uk\/media\/livacuk\/irish-studies\/research\/invitationtoobserve\/Open,Shutters,Iraq.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Our Feelings Took The Pictures: Open Shutters Iraq<\/em>.\u00a0 2008. (Film) Dir.Maysoon Pachachi<\/p>\n Papua Tells Stories, West Papua\/Indonesia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Papua Tells Stories<\/em> is project run by the Institute for Policy Research and Advocacy (ELSAM) and Peace Brigades International in 2022, that brought 15 Papuan youths of indigenous and non-indigenous backgrounds together to share perspectives and to build inter-group solidarity.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/proyekpapuabercerita\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/elsam.or.id\/buku\/papua-bercerita<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Picturing Reparation, Central African Republic<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Picturing Reparation<\/em> was a photovoice project run in 2023 with female survivors of conflict related sexual violence supported by the Trust Fund for Victims.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.voicesthatcount.net\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/trustfundforvictims.org\/en\/home<\/a><\/p>\n Possible Landscapes, Cyprus<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Possible Landscapes<\/em> was an experimental participatory peacebuildling project using Instagram that invited Cypriots to submit their photos to create a shared horizon of the divided island.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/possiblelandscapes\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Rohingyatographer, Bangladesh<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Rohingyatographer <\/em>is collective of Rohingya refugee photographers living in refugee campaign Cox Bazar, Bangladesh.\u00a0 They\u00a0 publish a biannual magazine, engage in exhibitions and projects and run photo workshops as a means to develop skills, to keep their culture and history alive and to connect with outsiders.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.rohingyatographer.org\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Shooting Cameras for Peace, Colombia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Disparando C\u00e1meras para la Paz (DCP), <\/em>or Shooting Cameras for Peace<\/em>, is a project that taught analogue photography to young people living in a barrio outside Bogot\u00e1.<\/p>\n Fattal, A.L. (2020) Shooting Cameras for Peace.\u00a0 Youth, Photography, and the Colombian Armed Conflict<\/em>. Peabody Museum Press<\/p>\n Side by Side, Palestine \/ Israel <\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Side by Side<\/em> was a photographic dialogue project led by PhotoVoice that brought together Palestinian and Israeli teenagers from across Israel and the West Bank in 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/photovoice.org\/sidebyside\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Sirkhane Darkroom, Turkey<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Sirkhane Darkroom<\/em> is a mobile photography darkroom project working with children in south-eastern Turkey that aims to provide a creative space and help Syrian and Iraqi Kurdish refugee children integrate with Turkish children.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.fotohane.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/sirkhanedarkroom\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Still Doing Life, USA<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Still Doing Life<\/em> is a photographic project led by Howard Zehr who took portraits and conducted interviews with people serving life sentences in Pennsylvania in the 1990s and again 25 years later.<\/p>\n Zehr, H., (2002). The Little Book of Restorative Justice. Good Books<\/p>\n Zehr, H., Toews, B., (2022). Still Doing Life: 22 Lifers 25 Years Later. The New Press<\/p>\n Zehr, H. (2005) The Little Book of Contemplative Photography. Good Books<\/p>\n Zehr, H., (2001). Transcending: Reflections Of Crime Victims. Good Books<\/p>\n TAFOS, Peru<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Talleres de Fotografia Social (TAFOS)<\/em> was a pioneering project in Peru that ran from 1986-98 and worked with over 270 community photographers across the country who used photography a tool to support non-violent resistance and community organisation in the midst of the conflict.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/tafospucp\/?hl=en<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/facultad.pucp.edu.pe\/comunicaciones\/tafos\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n Tejiendo Vidas, Fotosynthesis, Spain & Colombia<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n Tejiendo Vidas is an online participatory and therapeutic photography project that supported Colombian conflict victims living in Spain during COVID 19 led by Fotosynthesis.<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.fotosynthesiscommunity.org\/tejiendo-vidas\/<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n https:\/\/www.unidadvictimas.gov.co\/<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n