Barbara Peacock, Asher’s Cow, 2024/25, 16 x 20 inches, Archival pigment print

Barbara Peacock is an assignment photographer and director living in Portland, Maine. She studied fine arts at Boston University School of Fine Arts, and photography and filmmaking at The School for the Museum of Fine Arts / Tufts University. She began as a street photographer and gradually became an assignment lifestyle photographer and director. In 2023 she published American Bedroom - reflections on the nature of life. It is a cultural and anthropological study of Americans in their private dwelling; the bedroom. It encompasses the entire United States and took seven years to complete. Published by Kehrer-Verlag & Printed in Heidelberg, Germany. Barbara has won the Getty Editorial Grant, the Women Photograph/Getty Grant, three LensCulture Awards, four Top 50 Critical Mass Awards, and was named one of the Top 100 Photographers in America 2020. She was recently awarded the Arthur Gribin Legacy Award from The Gribin Museum. She founded a non-profit organization ‘The Nightingale Project’ that teaches art and photography to disadvantaged children and with learning disabilities. She teaches locally as well as having traveled to Haiti, Cambodia and New York.