Greg Constantine
I am a documentary photographer, author, curator and research fellow. I’ve spent the past twenty years working on long-term, immersive global projects exploring the intersection of human rights, citizenship, inequality, injustice, identity, genocide and the power of the state.
I spent eleven years working on the project Nowhere People, which documented the lives and struggles of ethnic communities around the world who had been arbitrarily deprived or stripped of their citizenship and were stateless. The project produced three photography books, including the historical book, Kenya's Nubians: Then & Now and the books, Exiled To Nowhere: Burma's Rohingya and Nowhere People, both of which were named notable photo books of the year by several publications like, Photo District News Magazine, Mother Jones & The Independent. I spent seven years working on the project Seven Doors, which explored and exposed the policies of immigration detention in several countries and the trauma these policies had on individuals, families and communities. This produced the Seven Doors Journal print series. For the past seventeen years, I’ve been committed to documenting the story of the Rohingya ethnic community from Myanmar. This work resulted in a major exhibition titled, Burma’s Path To Genocide at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington DC. Since 2021, I’ve been working on a new, collaborative visual history and storytelling project with Rohingya around the world called, Ek Khaale.
I was awarded my PhD from Middlesex University in the UK in early 2017. I’ve been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow with the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London, a 2018/2019 Independent Scholar Fellow and a 2022/23 Early Career Fellow with the Independent Social Research Foundation in the UK. I was a 2017/18 Artist in Residence on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada.