Peacemaker Interview
- What does visual peacemaking mean to you?
Visual peacemaking is a partnership between me and anyone I photograph. I really believe we are not our circumstances and in photography I have the ability to present evidence of an individual’s existence. It’s a claim I can make only if I follow through to intentionally pursue communication between the subject and the viewer.
- What motivates you to be a peacemaker?
I’m motivated by the challenge of fitting a human experience into a single frame; I’m motivated by the chance to catch an entire story in a photograph. I’m equally motivated by the simple excitement of collecting souvenirs of each day.
- Do you have an idea worth sharing?
“I have to be as much diplomat as a photographer.”
- Alfred Eisenstaedt
My Biography
Lydia O’Neil Bullock is a humanitarian photographer from Cincinnati, Ohio. She’s currently living in northern Iraq documenting surgical missions for the Preemptive Love Coalition. Lydia is also completing her senior thesis for the Corcoran College of Art + Design in Washington, DC. Lydia is represented by ZUMA Press.
My Recent Activity
- I added: 30 Days of Forgiveness
to Photo Stories on August 30, 2011
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