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. Raised in the inner-city of Stockton and Long Beach, CA, he dropped out of high school in his junior year to work full-time. 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) in Political Science 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 Political Science and abandoned his doctorate studies to pursue documentary photography. He interned at TIME Magazine in the photo department, was the 2011 Fellow at the Magnum Foundation Emergency Fund and was named an Emerging Talent by Getty Reportage. He is currently working on a long-term project on the Cambodian diaspora, which weaves community engagement with documentary photography, and is an Artist in Residence at the Bronx Museum as part of the historic Season of Cambodia Festival in NYC in the Spring of 2013.
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