Is peace photography a genre, a methodology, or a form of creative projection, resistance and connection? Join us online for an international panel event as we explore the possibilities—and limitations—of using the lens to not only depict peace but to shape it.

Dr Tiffany Fairey, Senior Research Fellow, King’s College London will chair a panel including Jacques Nkinzingabo, Director, Kigali Centre for Photography, Tatjana Milovanović, Program Director, Post Conflict Research Centre., Brendan Bannon, photography and Founder, Odyssey Project Ro Yassim Abdumonab and Sahat Zia Hero, Rohingyatographer Collective.

What is Peace Photography? brings together four of the contributors to Imaging Peace, a large-scale outdoor exhibition on London’s The Strand, to discuss the emerging field of peace photography. Presenting their own photographic practices with communities living with the aftermath of conflict in Rwanda, Bangladesh, Bosnia and Herzegovina and the United States, they share their diverse approaches to using the camera as a tool for dialogue, healing, and transformation.

War photography has been long established and studied as a photographic genre but it provides an incomplete perspective on what it takes to build and sustain positive and just peace. The panel will explore what a photography of peace consists of in different settings: for veterans adjusting to civilian life, for youth living in the shadow of genocide, for communities in protracted refugee situations and for those living with persistent ethnic division and tension. The conversation will reflect on how photography can shift perceptions, reframe memory, and open space for new futures.

This event is live online via Zoom. It's open to the public and free to attend Register now to secure your spot!

https://imagingpeace.org