João Pina

João Pina is a freelance photographer born in Portugal, 1980. He began working as a professional photographer at the age of 18 and in 2005 graduated from the International Center of Photography NY, Photojournalism and Documentary Photography programme. Pina’s photographs have been published in D Magazine, Days Japan, El País, Expresso, GEO, La Vanguardia, New York Times, New Yorker, Newsweek, Stern, Time, and Visão, among others. 

He has published three books, 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, dealing with the endemic violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

He was a Nieman fellow at Harvard University 2017-2018 and a faculty member at the International Center of Photography in New York.