Emily Macinnes is a Scottish documentary photographer currently based in Glasgow.  In 2012 she gained a BA Honours in Photography from Nottingham Trent University and later studied Photojournalism at the Danish School of Media and Journalism (DMJX). 

Emily has worked with various international NGO's as well as on assignment for many UK, US and European editorials. 

Over the years, Emily has become increasingly focused on 'solution-based journalism' that seeks to tell the stories of those who are finding answers to amidst some of the world's most pervasive political and social  issues.

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SELECTED CLIENTS & PUBLICATIONS: 

Médecins Sans Frontières; The EU Delegations of Pakistan, Malawi & Mozambique; UNICEF;  Oxfam; British Red Cross; Greenpeace; Le Monde; The Wall Street Journal; The Guardian; The Times; Bloomberg Businessweek; Bloomberg News; Vice; der Spiegel; Die Zeit; Dagbladet Information DK; The Financial Times Magazine; The New York Times; The Washington Post; National Geographic, Lonely Planet, The Obama Foundation;  and Christian Dior.

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AWARDS :

Award of Excellence, 71st College Photographer of the Year, 2016

Winner and Best in Show, NPPA's 'The Good Fight' Women in Visual Journalism, 2016

Shortlisted for the 159th RPS International Print Exhibition, 2016.

Photo Boite's 30 Under 30 Women Photographers, 2015

Winner of Oxfam 'Exposure' Photography Prize for Women, 2013

Recipient of the IdeasTap Innovators Fund, 2013

Shortlisted for Athens Photo Festival, 2012

Winner of the Signature Art Prize, 2012

Shortlisted for IdeasTap Photographic Award (16-22) in partnership with Magnum, 2012

Scholarship for 63rd Missouri Photo Workshop, MO, USA, 2012

Shortlisted for 9th Helen Keller Award, 2011

Student Grand Prize Winner - Photophilanthropy Activist Awards, 2010

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EXHIBITIONS / EVENTS :

The New Scots: Photoville: New York City, 2017

Idomeni Portraits: Harvard Carr Centre for Human Rights, Boston, USA, 2016

Everything for Family: DOCfield '16, Barcelona, 2016

Fokus: Mikser, Belgrade, 2016

reGeneration 3: Museu Amparo, Mexico, 2015

reGeneration 3: Museé de L'Élysée, Switzerland, 2015

The Young Carers exhibition and discussion with MSPs, The Scottish Parliament, Edinburgh, 2014

The Young Carers, City Chambers, Edinburgh 2014

The Nomads: Goose Flesh, The Arches, Glasgow, 2013

YPA Mentoring Program USA, Calumet Gallery, New York, 2013

YPA Mentoring Program UK, Margaret Street Gallery, London, 2013

Ideastap/Magnum Photographic Award, Covent Garden, London Film Museum, London, 2012

Signature Art Prize, Old Spitalfields Market, London, 2012

Broadway Cinema, UKYA World Event, Nottingham, 2012

Freerange, The Old Truman Brewery, London, 2012

Cornerhouse, Nottingham, 2012

Surface Gallery, Nottingham, 2011

Cornerhouse, Nottingham, 2010

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TALKS / TEACHING:

Film Lab: Women's International Film Festival: Islamabad, Pakistan, 2018

Oxfam discussion 'Injustice and Inequality', Edinburgh, 2015

'Face to Face', National Portrait Gallery with Document Scotland, Edinburgh, 2014

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SKILLS:

HTML, CSS, Wordpress, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe After Effects, Final Cut X