Dr Greg Constantine

Independent Scholar Fellow 2018-19, Early Career Fellow 2022-23

A Visual Archaeology Of Genocide And Slow Violence In Myanmar

This project seeks to contribute to a deeper understanding of the complex roots, dynamics and diverse experiences of forced displacement, deprivation of nationality and the destruction of access to healthcare as contributor to the genocide of the Rohingya community in Myanmar. The research will develop along a number of lines, interweaving the thematic strands of genocide, ‘slow violence’, visual storytelling, statelessness, trajectories of forced displacement and health destruction.

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Disrupting Genocide: Restoring The ‘Potential History’ Of The Rohingya

Over the last five decades, the world in which the Rohingya community from Myanmar (Burma) once existed has been destroyed. Today, nearly all visual representations of the Rohingya portray a people defined by displacement, violence, victimhood and genocide. An alternative visual history of the Rohingya has been totally lost.

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Blog posts

Seven Photographs That Expose the Stark Reality of Immigration Detention

Dr Greg Constantine has spent years photographing people in immigration detention. Here, he shares some of their stories.

A Different Portrait of the Rohingya

Lars Cornelissen sits down with two-time ISRF Fellow Greg Constantine to talk about his recent research on the untold history of the Rohingya.

Areas of interest

Documentary Photography Photography Southeast Asia Myanmar Human Rights Inequality Migration Forced Displacement Rohingya Visual Anthropology

Cohort

ISF4 ECF6

Biography

Greg Constantine is an American/Canadian documentary photographer based in SE Asia and the United States. He has dedicated his career to long-term, independent projects about underreported or neglected global stories. His work explores the intersection of human rights, inequality, injustice, identity, belonging and the power of the state. He spent over a decade working on the project Nowhere People, which documented the lives and struggles of stateless communities in nineteen countries around the world.

He is the author of three books including: Kenya’s Nubians: Then & Now (2011), Exiled To Nowhere: Burma’s Rohingya (2012) – which was named a 2012 Notable Photo Book of the year by Photo District News Magazine (US) and the Independent on Sunday(UK) – and the book Nowhere People (2015), which was recognized as one of the Top Ten Photo Books of 2015 by Mother Jones Magazine in the US.

Exhibitions of his work have been shown in over 40 cities worldwide including: Palais des Nations in Geneva, European Parliament in Brussels, Saatchi Gallery in London, Customs House in Sydney, Kenya National Museum in Nairobi, the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and US Senate Rotunda in Washington DC and at the UN Headquarters in NYC. Exhibitions have also been shown in Budapest, Kiev, Rome, Madrid, Perpignan, Bangkok, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Tokyo, Phnom Penh and Yangon. In 2014, his work was exhibited at the Peace Palace in The Hague during the 1st Global Forum on Statelessness.

In late 2016, he earned his Ph.D. from Middlesex University in the UK. He was a 2015 Distinguished Visiting Fellow with the International State Crime Initiative at Queen Mary University of London and a 2017 Artist in Residence of Salt Spring Island in British Columbia, Canada.

Biographical details correct as of 16.01.25