I am a visual sociologist researching how photography and visual practices shape peace, conflict and polarisation.

I work at the intersection of visual politics, peace and conflict studies, and participatory visual methods.

My research examines how conflict-affected communities build, contest and imagine peace and conflict through photography, and how the arts contribute to conflict transformation, transitional justice and depolarisation.

I work as an independent researcher, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow in Department of War Studies, King's College London and as part of the Faculty at IE University, Madrid

About my work

  • New Book: Imaging Peace

    “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.”

    Professor Rachel Kerr, King’s College London

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  • Peace Photography: A Guide

    A practitioners guide to visual peace methods.

    Avaliable in English, French and Spanish

    Downloaded in over 80 countries

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  • New Book: Imaging 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.’

    Professor Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland

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  • New Paper: Assembling The Voices of Peace Portal

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  • Media and Engagement

    Recent blogs and podcasts

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Research Themes

  • Visual Peace: how photographs and visual practices represent, construct and foster peace.

  • Conflict Transformation and Depolarisation: how creative practice supports dialogue, repair and reconciliation, and bridges entrenched division after war and mass violence.

  • Participatory & Visual Methods: the design and ethics of photovoice, creative and arts-based methods, including therapeutic and trauma-informed practice.

  • Evaluation, Impact and Inclusive Rigour: complexity-aware evaluation of arts, research and peacebuilding programmes, and how inclusion strengthens rigour.

  • Photography as Social Practice: photography as collaboration and dialogue, and community photography histories.

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Featured Projects

Imaging Peace

Multi-country study of peace photography practice, ethics and impact. Leverhulme Fellowship, 2021–24.

© Edwin Cubillos / Everyday Peace Indicators

Art & Reconciliation

AHRC-funded research on the arts in reconciliation and transitional justice in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Intersectional Gendered Violence

ESRC-funded research on artistic responses to conflict-related gendered violence, and their role in recognition, advocacy and repair.

©Jenny Matthews                              

Everyday Peace Indicators

Photovoice and community-generated indicators to understand peace from the ground up, in Colombia and Bosnia and Herzegovina

©Jacques Nkinzingabo / Kigali Centre for Photography                                                                 

All projects

Selected Publications


All publications

Media and Engagement

Consultancy and Advisory

I advise and consult for universities, NGOs and peacebuilding organisations on visual methods, photovoice and participatory research design and accompaniment, trauma-informed and creative methods and research, and the evaluation and impact assessment of arts, community and peacebuilding programmes. Clients and collaborators include Save the Children, The Leverhulme Centre for Research on Slavery in War, the Institute of Development Studies, the Post-Conflict Research Centre, Sussex University and UMass.

For collaborations and consultancy please do get in touch

  • 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.

    Roland Bleiker, University of Queensland

Imaging Peace large scale street exhibition produced with King’s Culture, The Strand, London, 2025-26