Barbara Peacock is an American photographer and director who lives in Portland, Maine. She studied fine arts at Boston University School of Fine Arts, and photography and filmmaking at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University, and worked for many years as an assignment and commercial photographer.
The idea for American Bedroom came in her own home in 2016, when she woke one morning to see her husband asleep with a snore mask over his face. Over seven years she crossed the United States photographing individuals, couples and families in the rooms they call their bedrooms, each portrait paired with a quote from the sitter. The book American Bedroom: Reflections on the Nature of Life was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2023.
The project won a Getty Images Grant for Editorial Photography in 2017 and a Women Photograph Project Grant in 2022, and was among the Critical Mass Top 50. She received the Griffin Museum of Photography’s Arthur Griffin Legacy Award in 2023. Her earlier book is Hometown: 1982–2016 (Bazan Photos, 2016).
