João Pina

João Pina works both with photography, archives, and moving images. Born in Portugal, he has lived and worked for the last 25 years mostly in Latin America focusing on the human condition and human rights. His work has been published in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Time Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, GEO, Stern Magazine, El Pais, Le Monde, among others.

He is the author of four monographs, Por teu livre pensamento (Assírio & Alvim, 2007) portraying 25 former political prisoners from Portugal; CONDOR (Tinta-da-china/Blume/Ed. Sous-sol, 2014) about the military dictatorships in South America in the 1970’s; and 46750 (Tinta-da-china/Loco/FotoEvidence, 2018) about endemic violence in Rio de Janeiro and Tarrafal (Tinta-da-china/GOST, 2024) documenting a former Portuguese concentration camp in in Cape Verde.

He has had exhibitions at the Open Society Foundations (New York), International Center of Photography (New York), Point of View Gallery (New York), Howard Greenberg Gallery (New York), King Juan Carlos Center – NYU (New York), Canon Gallery (Tokyo), Museu de Arte Moderna (Rio de Janeiro), Museu de Arte do Rio (Rio de Janeiro), Paço das Artes (São Paulo), Centro de la Fotografia (Montevideo), Museo de la Memoria y los Derechos Humanos (Santiago de Chile), Parque de la Memoria (Buenos Aires), Torreão Poente – Museu de Lisboa (Lisbon), KGaleria (Lisbon), the Portuguese Center of Photography (Porto), Visa pour L’Image (Perpignan), and Reencontres d’Arles (Arles).

He graduated from the International Center of Photography’s Photojournalism and Documentary photography program in 2005. Pina was also a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University 2017-2018 and a Halcyon Arts Lab Fellow in Washington D.C. in 2018-2019. He was also a Fellow at Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination in Paris in 2021-2022.