ABOUT

Greg Constantine is an independent documentary photographer, author and visual journalist who has dedicated his career to stories and projects that focus on human rights, inequality, identity and the power of the State. His long-term projects include: Ek Khaale: The Rohingya, A Visual Restoration, Seven Doors, Exiled To Nowhere: Burmas Rohingya and the acclaimed project Nowhere People (2006-2016).    

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, the Oak Foundation and NEO Philanthropy/Four Freedoms Fund. He has also collaborated with the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR), Refugees International, MSF - Doctors Without Borders, Human Rights Watch, American Jewish World Service. the European Network on Statelessness and the International Detention Coalition. His work has non-profit fiscal sponsorship from the Santa Fe based photography organization, CENTER.

His work has been recognized in Pictures of the Year International, NPPA Best of Photojournalism, the Human Rights Press Award (Hong Kong), the Society of Publishers in Asia, Days Japan, Allard Prize for Photography, International Photo Awards, the Harry Chapin Media Award for Photojournalism and the Bertha Artivism Awards. In 2025 he was the recipient of the Anticolonialism/Antiracism Award for Visual Research from the International Visual Sociology Association as well as the Multimedia Award from CENTER.

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. In 2020 a major exhibition of his work on the genocide of the Rohingya community opened at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC. The exhibition ran for 5 years and was seen by over 500,000 visitors. In 2024, the project Seven Doors was shown at the international photojournalism festival, Visa Pour l’Image in Perpignan, France.

He has been a speaker and lecturer at over 40 schools and universities in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. Most recently, he was a Hearst Visiting Fellow Demystifying Media Speaker at the University of Oregon’s School of Journalism and Communication. 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 late 2016 he earned his PhD from Middlesex University in the UK. Constantine was a 2017-2018 Artist in Residence on Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada. In 2018/2019 he was an Independent Research Fellow and in 2022/2023 he was an Early Career Fellow with the Independent Social Research Foundation (ISRF) in the UK and Queen Mary University of London.   

His work in 2026 has been supported by a 2026 Bertha Challenge Fellowship from the Bertha Foundation in the UK.