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We are a team of professional photographers, filmmakers, educators, facilitators, artists, participa

Fotosynthesis deliver photo services and
commissions,tailored creative and educational photography workshops, according to our clients’ needs and interests. Our services are designed for schools, businesses, community groups, charities, NGO’s, museum, cultural organisations,
universities, local government institutions, PR companies.

20/04/2025

Some of our latest creative collaboration in Northern Ireland with Beyond Skin

21/03/2025

So excited and honoured to be part of this incredible conference by Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery alongside people I admire and will learn so much from.

Peace photography, dialogue and healing. Inspired from our 'Peace Photography: A Guide' with Tiffany Fairey

𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗻𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 & 𝗗𝗶𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘂𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗣𝗲𝗮𝗰𝗲: 𝗜𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗶𝗱 𝗚𝘂𝘆𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘀 𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀𝗵𝗼𝗽 𝗮𝘁 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗼𝘂𝗴𝗵 𝗣𝗵𝗼𝘁𝗼𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗽𝗵𝘆 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲
We are excited to announce that Ingrid Guyon, a leading expert in participatory photography and visual storytelling, will be hosting an immersive workshop at Belfast Exposed on Monday 7 April as part of our upcoming Healing Through Photography conference. Titled 'Flowering Through Photography' this hands-on session draws inspiration from her recent publication 'Peace Photography: A Guide' and explores the transformative power of photography in fostering resilience, self-expression, and community connection.
🔍 𝗙𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗺𝗼𝗿𝗲 at www.belfastexposed.org/ingrid-guyon/
🎟️ 𝗧𝗶𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲 from www.belfastexposed.org/conference

11/03/2025

Exciting!

🚀 Exciting news! We’re gearing up for !

📍 Where? Barcelona, Spain
📅 When? November 21-23

This year’s conference, co-organized with , aims to rethink peace in the context of global threats:

❓ How can we reclaim and give meaning to peace in the face of growing polarisation, militarisation, inequality, and loss of trust?

🌍 How can we seize new opportunities to connect, engage in dialogue, and foster interdependence?

🔜 Stay tuned! We’ll soon share details on the sub-themes and the Call for Proposals— so you can already start thinking about what YOU want to bring to !

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Us presentem la , la conferència anual de que enguany coorganitzem des de l’ICIP, i que se celebrarà del 21 al 23 de novembre.

En un context d’amenaces globals, ens proposem repensar la pau:

❓ Com podem recuperar i donar sentit a la pau davant la creixent polarització, la militarització, la desigualtat i pèrdua de confiança?

🌍 Com podem aprofitar noves oportunitats per connectar-nos, dialogar i cultivar la interdependència?

🔜 Ben aviat obrirem la convocatòria per participar a la conferència! Estigueu atentes!

14/02/2025

Today is a very special day for Fotosynthesis CIC. Our long-awaited PEACE PHOTOGRAPHY GUIDE was made with so much love. After endless meetings, writing retretas, careful selection of each image, caption and content, our founding director has co-authored IngridGuyon Foto with Tiffany Fairey, who co-authored this guide produced by Fotosynthesis CIC and designed by Diego Echeverrycheverry with contributions from 26 projects in 20 countries, is now online and free to download from the Imaging Peace website: https://lnkd.in/dw8uXbAT (A printed version is on its way!). Available in English, French and Spanish.

Based on years of research, endless meetings and writing retreats, and careful selection of each image and caption liaising with projects in more than 20 countries, this 122-page resource examines how images and image-making can be used to foster peace, dialogue and non-violent civil resistance.

This guide explores what a photography of peace consists of. It critically discusses the ethics and practicalities of community-engaged and participatory visual peace methods and features 26 peace photography activities. The accompanying website contains case studies of 26+ contributing projects and we plan to continue adding more.

We hope it 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 publication has been made possible by support from the Leverhulme Trust, Humanity United, the SSPP Methodologies Fund, and the Department of War Studies at King's College London and translated into French and Spanish by myself and many helpers.

Huge thanks to all our contributors, including Everyday Peace Indicators Pamina Firchow Edwin Cubillos Fotohane Darkroom Serbest Salih Interfaith Photovoice The Post-Conflict Research Center (PCRC) Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Kigali Center for Photography Picture Library Chiapas Photography Project Inside Out Project Valentina Baú Brendan Bannon Voices That Count Rohingyatographer Alexander Fattal M.Brinton Lykes, Dr Howard Zehr John Noltner Isabella Marin Muñoz Prem Sonali TAFOS Eugenie Dolberg Luke Watson Stephen Wilson Monica Duarte, Papua Tells Stories Colectivo Miradas

Our editor was Gareth Benest and we are most grateful to our reviewers, Stephen Gray Soledad Muñiz Nautiyal Maria Fanlo Sarah Sheldon Maria Akbulyakova Olga Rodriguez Mur.

We are available for online and face-to-face conferences and trainings. This guide is free but you can support our work by donating on the website.

Credits of images: 1. Fotohane Darkroom & Katy Vetch 2. Erica Duncan / Odyssey, 4. Las Cruces Photography Collective. Edwin Cubillos 6. Fotosynthesis

04/11/2024

What have we been doing.... this..
Una experiencia única. Gracias Save the Children España por confiar en nosotros Fotosynthesis CIC Ingrid Ayunkuyen Guyon Alejandro M Vasquez por ese reto, aventuras, historias, encuentros, que tocaron nuestros corazones para siempre.

Escuchar al otro sin juzgar es el primer paso para construir una sociedad en paz, convivencia, solidaridad, comprensión, empatía, respeto, tolerancia.

La juventud es el futuro, cuidemos la, escuchamos la.

Todos somos migrantes, que nadie se lo olvidé.

03/10/2024

So honoured to be part of these amazing talented expert and inspiring people doing in different context, thematic, objectives. Thank you PhotovoiceWorldwide and Tiffany Fairey, nearly 20 years that i have discovered Photovoice and I never looked back.

01/10/2024

Happy to have collaborated with Pilar Mesones in producing this short tutorial about hand made menstrual towels so women in Ecuador can be self sustainable with their period and ecological at the same time.

04/09/2024

ACCIÓN INSIDE OUT: 'SOMOS VALDESPARTERA'
"Mirarnos como seres humanos nos ayuda a convivir mejor" (Fotosynthesis)

Fotosynthesis CIC invita a personas que viven, estudien o trabajen en el barrio de Valdespartera de Zaragoza para ser retratadas para el proyecto ‘Somos Zaragoza’. Cada persona será fotografiada en un estudio fotográfico en Valdespartera y tendrá la oportunidad de grabar un audio para acompañar su retrato, compartiendo algo de su vida y del barrio. Con esta acción queremos celebrar las historias y rostros del barrio de Valdespartera y hacerlo conocer al resto de la ciudad de Zaragoza.

Si estás interesado/a, contáctenos por correo a [email protected] o al 664 64 29 05 para reservar tu plaza. ¡Plazas limitadas!

Serás parte de esta acción global de Inside Out Project que será expuesta en las calles de Valdespartera con una comida comunitaria para celebrar y en el Centro Joaquín Roncal: https://www.insideoutproject.net/en/explore/group-action/somos-zaragoza

El proyecto Inside Out es un proyecto de arte participativo global que permite a todo el mundo compartir sus historias no contadas mediante la creación de una obra de arte público. Los participantes comparten su mensaje con el mundo, exponiendo retratos en blanco y negro a gran escala de miembros de su comunidad en espacios públicos. A través de sus acciones, comunidades de todo el mundo pueden defender aquello en lo que creen y provocar un cambio global a nivel local. Desde 2011, cerca de 600.000 personas de 152 países y territorios han participado en el proyecto Inside Out. La primera acción de Inside Out en Zaragoza fue el barrio del Gancho al principio del 2024 con nosotros. Fue la primera acción en España que incluyó QR de audio acompañando los retratos. ¡Ahora será en Valdespartera!

Pueden ver más sobre la acción del Gancho y escuchar los audios aquí: https://www.fotosynthesiscommunity.org/es/somos-zaragoza/
https://www.insideoutproject.net/en/explore/group-action/somos-zaragoza
https://www.insideoutproject.net/es/news/somos-zaragoza-retratos-y-voces-del-gancho

Actividad financiada por el Ayuntamiento de Zaragoza y Zaragoza Cultura con el apoyo del Centro de Salud de Valdespartera y Fundación CAI.
Con Alejandro M Vasquez Ingrid Ayunkuyen Guyon

27/02/2024

We are hiring!

Photography Tutor:

We are currently recruiting for the position of Photography Tutor on our LAL STEP UP courses, please see the full job description on our website (www.photofusion.org/job-opportunities) including how to apply.

Deadline: Please submit by midnight 3 March 2024

Photofusion Trustee Recruitment:

In 2024, under the new leadership of Director, Jenni Grainger, we are looking to recruit more Trustees to add to our experienced board.

We are particularly looking for people who are keen to support the governance of our organisation with a background / knowledge of Financial Management. (charity sector ideally), someone with legal experience (solicitor etc), fundraising, and or experience of leading an Arts Council National Portfolio organisation.

We are also particularly keen to hear from people local to Lambeth / South London who have an interest in supporting the creative ecology of Brixton and the surrounding area.

Please see our website for the Trustee information pack and how to apply.

Deadline: Please submit by midnight 1 April 2024

Address

Kemp House, 152/160 City Road
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Telephone

+44 7814642076

Website

http://www.fotosynthesiscommunity.org/

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Our Story

“Their projects are always delivered with the utmost sensitivity and respect for the people they work with. “

“Fotosynthesis stimulate interest, nurture imaginations and promote the rights of each individual to have and express their creative voices through visual arts.”After many years focusing on darkroom projects with a local base, Fotosynthesis has decided not have a base anymore but to go and deliver workshops and projects anywhere to reach out to more communities and has developed meaningful partnerships with national and international NGOs, museums and the education sector and now produces impact and promotional videos and expanded a new branch in Spain!

A little bit of history...

Ingrid Guyon, photographer with passion for self-representation and ethics, believed in using visual arts as tools for social change and founded Fotosynthesis in 2009. Her studies in Visual Anthropology has shifted her career: she did not want to become a photojournalist or travel photographer but wanted to work directly with communities to ensure a fair and participatory representation.

Since she graduated three years before, she had never been back to a darkroom due to the lack of resources and the pressure of stepping into the digital world and wanted to make photography and self-expression accessible to anyone. During her internship at Photovoice, she was trained in participatory photography. The success of a pilot Fotosynthesis project funded by Unltd Millennium pushed Ingrid and her friends photographers Jyoti, Federico and Adilson to create a community organisation. At the same time, Ingrid accidentally came across an abandoned darkroom in InsightShare’s office when meeting Gareth, and realised she had found a treasure. The team spent days and nights to bringing it back to life: Fotosynthesis was born. The support of Refugeeyouth, Photovoice, InsightShare and many friends and fellow photographers was crucial. We became a community.

We have 10 years of experience using images to engage, dialogue, advocate, communicate, promote participation, amplify voices and create new narratives. More than 4000 participants, 1000 life stories, 100 pop up darkroom, 600 workshops, 27 exhibitions, 2000 portraits taken so far!

Our clients and partners include museums, International and local NGOs, schools, universities, cultural institutions such International Catalan Institute for Peace (ICIP), Museum of London,Women Diaspora UK and Barcelona, Latin American Women’s Right Service (LAWRS), IFAD, Beyond Skin, Latin Elephant, Jesuit Refugee Services UK, Sight of Emotion Mexico, The Children’s Society, Insightshare, Photovoice, the London Boroughs of Lambeth, Camden, Islington, South Bank Centre, RefugeeYouth, Goldsmiths, University of London, British Film Institute (BFI), Refuge In Films Festival, Pics Festival, Creative Sparkworks, Brixton Learning Collaborative and the Windmill Schools Cluster, Lambeth Youth Offending, Children and Young Peoples Services and International Institute of Visual Arts London (INIVA)