GREG CONSTANTINE

Greg Constantine is an independent documentary photographer, author and researcher who has dedicated his career to stories and projects that focus on human rights, inequality, identity and the power of the State. He spent eleven years working on the acclaimed project Nowhere People, (2006-2016) which was a global exploration documenting the lives and struggles of individuals and ethnic communities around the world who had had their citizenship denied or stripped from them by governments, mostly because of discrimination and intolerance.   

He is the author of three books: Kenya’s Nubians: Then & Now (2011) and Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya (2012) which was selected as a 2012 Notable Photo Book of the Year by the Independent on Sunday in the UK, the Christian Science Monitor and PDN Magazine in the US and was a finalist for the 2013 IPA Photo Book Asia Award. His third book, Nowhere People (2015) was named a 2015 Notable Photo Book of the Year by PDN Magazine and was named one of the Top Ten Photo Books of 2015 by Mother Jones Magazine.  

He is the recipient of grants from the Open Society Foundation's Justice Initiative, the International Migration Initiative and the Documentary Photography Project, including an Audience Engagement Grant and selection for the prestigious group exhibition, Moving Walls 19. He is a multiple grant recipient from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, the National Endowment for Democracy and the Oak Foundation. He has also received grants and support from the Sigrid Rausing Trust, NEO Philanthropy, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Refugees International, American Jewish World Service, Médecins Sans Frontières, Human Rights Watch and the Simon-Skjodt Center for the Prevention of Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Since 2006 he has received non-profit fiscal sponsorship from the Seattle-based photography organization, Blue Earth Alliance.

Exhibitions of his work have been held in over 40 cities worldwide including: London, Madrid, Budapest, Dublin, Geneva, Brussels, Perpignan, Belgrade, Rome, Kiev, The Hague, Sydney, Manila, Bangkok, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Phnom Penh, Yangon, Tokyo, Nairobi, Kampala, Banjul, Chicago, Washington DC and at the United Nations Headquarters in New York City.

He has given lectures and presentations at over 25 schools and universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa and in 2016 was invited to speak at TEDxEastEnd in London. He is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with the International State Crime Initiative.  In early 2017 he earned his PhD from Middlesex University in the UK. He is a former Artist in Residence on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. In 2018/2019 he was awarded an Independent Research Fellowship from the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in the UK.