Imaging PeaceTransforming Conflict, Resisting Violence and Building Community through Photography
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About this book
Examines diverse forms of peace photography by and with conflict-affected communities
- The first multi-country empirical study of peace photography
- Original case studies from Rwanda, Colombia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Northern Ireland, Mexico and Nepal explore how photography is being used to disrupt conflict and to foster peace
- Richly illustrated with over 75 images
- Speaks directly to themes of de-colonisation and co-production
- Presents interdisciplinary and practice-based research that will appeal to researchers, practitioners, photographers and artists in peace and conflict studies, post conflict and community development, socially engaged arts practices and methods, and photographic theory
Imaging Peace explores how photography can move beyond documenting conflict to actively shaping peace. Drawing on projects from six countries dealing with legacies of war and ongoing violence and division, Tiffany Fairey examines how local photographers and communities are using the medium to resist violence, foster healing and reimagine peace. From Colombia and Rwanda to Nepal and Northern Ireland, these local image-makers reveal how visual practices can nurture agency and plural visions of just peace.
Expanding the emerging field of peace photography, Fairey develops a nuanced ethical and methodological framework for using photography intentionally as a tool of dialogue and transformation. Imaging Peace is grounded in collaborative research that interweaves theory and practice and, featuring over 75 photographs, it invites readers to rethink what photography can do – and what peace might look like.
Reviews
It takes courage for individuals and communities in the midst of violent conflict and living in its aftermath to visualise a better world. Tiffany Fairey's magnificent book has captured the agency, imagination and skills needed to think about peace. She shows how photography can open a series of windows into emotion and positive transformation. Highly recommended.
Imaging Peace makes a significant and timely intervention in debates on war, representation, and post-conflict societies. Bringing together rich empirical material with thoughtful analysis, it demonstrates how visual practices shape not only how peace is seen, but how it is understood and pursued. This highly original, innovative and engaging book will be essential reading for anyone interested in conflict, representation, and the politics of peace.
Photographs not only represent the world but also enact it. Tiffany Fairey argues that how we see peace, and who sees it, matters. Her book offers an exceptionally thorough and sophisticated contribution to the literature on peace photography, a compelling tour d’horizon of the key issues at stake.
Table of contents
Introduction: Imaging and Imagining Peace
1. A Potential History and Typology of Peace Photography and its Methods
2. On Visualising Everyday Peace, Colombia
3. On Visual Agency and Community Dialogue, Rwanda
4. On Countering History through Visual Archives, Nepal
5. On Healing through Photography, Northern Ireland
6. On Visual Self-Determination and Refusal, Mexico
7. On Showing Peace is Possible, Bosnia and Herzegovina
Conclusion: Photography’s Peace Capacities
Acknowledgements
Bibliography
Notes