Rob Pinney is a freelance photographer based in London.
Rob is a graduate of the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) and the Department of War Studies, King's College London, where he researched photography and conflict. In his personal work, Rob is interested in conflict and migration, technology and globalisation, and related social and political issues.
Among others, his work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Times, The Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Le Monde Diplomatique and Amnesty International’s Human Rights Defender magazine. He regularly shoots for news agencies and freelance clients.
He is available for commissions worldwide.
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EXHIBITIONS
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
ARTICLES & INTERVIEWS
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
Instagram Takeover: The 'Jungle'
Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 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
ACADEMIC WRITING
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