Viviana Peretti is an Italian photographer interested in long-term and in-depth stories about marginalized communities and human rights violations. In 2000, after graduating with a BA in Literature from the University of Rome, she moved to Colombia, where she completed an MA in Journalism and spent years working as a freelancer. In 2010, Peretti graduated from the Documentary Photography and Photojournalism program at the International Center of Photography (ICP) in New York, where she lived for six years while working on personal projects about religious communities and diaspora, and producing assignments for The New York Times.

In 2013, Peretti was an Artist-in-Residence at L’École Nationale Supérieure de la Photographie (ENSP) in Arles, France. In 2014, she was elected Photographer of the Year at the Sony World Photography Awards' Arts & Culture category, and won the American Photography 30. In 2015, she was a Camargo Foundation Fellow in France. In 2017, Peretti was a Bogliasco Foundation Fellow in Italy. In 2021, she was a E.CO Residency Fellow at Baudó in Colombia.

In 2022, she received an Honorable Mention from the World Press Photo Foundation for her project "Searching for Lost Lives", about forced disappearance in Colombia. In 2024, "Searching for Lost Lives" was finalist in The Aftermath Project, won the Women Photograph Grant and the Italian Council 13 Project. Peretti's work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the MACRO Museum in Rome, the Museo Archivo de la Fotografía in Mexico City, and the Centre of Memory, Peace and Reconciliation (CMPR) in Bogotà, among others. Peretti’s photographs have been published by international media outlets including The New York Times, Newsweek, BBC, CNN, Vice, and Granta.