Portraying the divided city. Photographing the Belfast peacelines

In my research on the Belfast peacelines, which sought to understand the process behind their construction, photography was used as an investigative tool to locate devices, analyse the transformation of the urban environment and describe the materiality of place. In this article, I question the links between photography and other types of data and whether it is possible to achieve a descriptive neutrality in "research" pictures, in contrast to an aesthetic that is supposedly specific to art photography.