Ingrid Guyon
Ingrid is a photographer, filmmaker and participatory facilitator since 2007. She is the Founding Director of Fotosynthesis, a social enterprise that uses photography as a tool for education, to create new narratives and peacebuilding. She has worked extensively throughout Latin America, especially Colombia and the Dominican Republic, where her work has focused on gender participation and citizen initiatives in the peace process and the impact of tourism on local communities. Ingrid has a degree in Social and Visual Anthropology.
She has coordinated and facilitated Participatory Video workshops for InsightShare since 2016. As an Associate she has facilitated workshops for USIP and Build Up in Central African Republic, doing community consultation about Security and Peacebuilding policies, UNA Tanzania– a women’s rights and custom law intervention; for Interpeace in Ivory Coast, a youth led participatory analysis of peace initiatives; as well as for Sisters For Change in South Africa, producing videos to advocate for law reform of LGBTQI and women’s right in Commonwealth countries.