amber pinkerton

AMBER PINKERTON was born in Jamaica in 1997 and lives and works in London, UK. Pinkerton holds 1st Class BA Hons in Photography from the University of Westminster (2019-2023). She has exhibited internationally throughout the UK, France, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. Her work belongs in the permanent collection of the V&A Museum, London.

Pinkerton’s practice is rooted in identity politics, with a focus on Jamaica and its diaspora and holds urgent relevance to prescient explorations of feminist auto-theory and post-coloniality. Exploring the nature of personhood and individual and collective cultural agency, Her work is an ongoing form of active socio-political critique. In her recent works, she begins to explore the 'photograph as object' in its physical realm, with focus on its tactility and materiality, as well as self-portraiture, virtual reality, sound and the written word.

Pinkerton has previously been featured in Forbes 30 Under 30 (2022), The New York Times Style Magazine's list of '15 Creative Women for Our Time' (2020) and in the 2020 British Fashion Council's New Wave: Creatives List. She is also the founder of the open-access library ‘JA Editorial Archive (2023) which aims for wider circulation of fashion print material shot in Jamaica as a contribution to Jamaica's photographic developments.