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Rob Pinney is a freelance photographer based in London, United Kingdom.
My work is split between assignments for press, commissions for NGOs and charities, and longer-term projects and features. In my personal work I'm interested in conflict and migration; technology, globalisation, and identity; and related social and political issues. From 2015-18 I worked extensively in Calais, photographing the situation faced by asylum seekers hoping to cross the English Channel and reach the United Kingdom.
My photographs have been published in newspapers and magazines around the world, including The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, Het Financieele Dagblad, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal and Le Monde Diplomatique. Third sector clients include British Red Cross, FareShare, Thames Valley Air Ambulance, and Choose Love. I am currently a stringer for Getty Images in London.
I studied at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and later at the Department of War Studies, King's College London, where I researched photography and conflict.
EXHIBITIONS
2021
Refugees: Forced to Flee
Imperial War Museum
London, UK
2019
Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond
Pitt Rivers Museum
Oxford, UK
2017
No Turning Back: Seven Migration Moments that Changed Britain
Migration Museum Project at The Workshop
London, UK
Call Me By My Name: Stories From Calais and Beyond
Migration Museum Project at The Workshop
London, UK
2016
Crossing Borders, Crossing Boundaries
Street Art Museum
Saint Petersburg, Russia
Call Me By My Name: Stories From Calais and Beyond
LondonNewcastle Gallery
London, UK
The 'Jungle'
Carnegie Center for Ethics in International Affairs
New York, USA
These Walls Must Fall
Geddes Gallery
London, UK
WRITING & FEATURES
Still Ill: The "Long-haulers"
Point.51, October 2020
Brexit and the Climate Crisis
Point.51, November 2019
Calais Belle Ma Ville
Point.51, November 2018
Response to the Omran Daqneesh Photograph
The Listening Post, Al Jazeera English, August 2016
Interview: Photojournalism and the Refugee Crisis
Tencent Photo, June 2016 (Chinese)
The Ethics of Photography in Calais
PhotoVoice, April 2016
Vi Ses i London [See you in London]
Atlas Magazine, December 2015 (Danish)
Some of the Many Breakfasts Consumed in a French Refugee Camp
Roads & Kingdoms, November 2015
What Does War Look Like? Photography and the Management of the Field of Vision in Iraq and Afghanistan, 2001 - Present
MA Thesis, War Studies, King's College London, August 2015
Insurgent Photography: The Camera at War in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria since 2001
April 2015
Can the Sri Lanka Army be Described as a Counterinsurgency Force?
Small Wars Journal, June 2014