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Pete PIN

b. 1982, Cambidia

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Pete Pin was born in 1982 in Khao-I-Dang refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodian border, and migrated to California in the mid-1980s. He holds a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and studied documentary and photojournalism at the International Center of Photography in NYC, where he was awarded the Allan L. Modotti Scholarship. Pin lives and works in Brooklyn, NYC. He was the 2011 Fellow at the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund and was named an Emerging Talent in Reportage by Getty Images. He also works part-time for TIME as a Photo Editor. Pin is currently working on a long-term project with different Cambodian diasporic communities across the US, using documentary photography to generate dialogue around their familial and collective histories. Pin's work has been published in the New York Times, TIME Magazine, Forbes, and Burn, among others. He was curator of FORWARD: Modern Arts Festival (2013), a group exhibition of Cambodian diasporic artists at Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn, NY. Pin's most recent group exhibitions include Our Portraits, Our Families, at Museum of Chinese in America (2014). Pin was an artist-in-residence at the Bronx Museum, as part of Season of Cambodia, an interdisciplinary citywide art festival in NYC, 2013. More about Pete Pin at www.petepin.com.