Pete Pin

Pete Pin is a documentary photographer based in Brooklyn, NY. He was born in a refugee camp after the Cambodian genocide and immigrated as a refugee to California in the mid 1980's. He received his BA at the University of California at Berkeley where he graduated magna cum laude with high departmental honors (via the completion of a year-long honors program) and was awarded the Outstanding Honors Thesis award for the best honors thesis in his department, and the Documentary and Photojournalism Program at the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, where he was awarded the Allan L Modotti Scholarship. Pete purchased his first camera months before embarking on an eight-year PhD program at Berkeley in the Social Sciences and abandoned his doctorate studies to pursue documentary photography. He was the 2011 Fellow at the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund, which providied support for a chapter of his long-term project on the Cambodian diaspora, and is an Emerging Talent with Getty Reportage. Currently he is interning at Time Magazine.

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