Amber Pinkerton was born in Jamaica in 1997 and lives and works in London, UK. Pinkerton holds a BA in Photography from the University of Westminster (2019-2023). Pinkerton has exhibited internationally throughout the UK, France, Sweden, Germany, and the United States. Recent institutional exhibitions include 'Female View: Female Fashion Photographers from Modernity to the Digital Age' at Kunsthalle St. Annen, Lübeck & Museum Schloss Moyland, Germany and 'Black Venus' which toured Fotografiska, New York, The Museum of African Diaspora, San Francisco, USA and Somerset House, London, UK. Pinkerton has exhibited in shows amongst pioneering artists such as James Barnor, Carrie Mae Weems, Kara Walker, Deana Lawson and Sarah Moon.

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 autotheory and post-coloniality. Exploring the nature of personhood and individual and collective cultural agency, Pinkerton’s work is an ongoing form of active socio-political critique. In her recent works, Pinkerton begins to explore the 'photograph as object' in its physical realm, with focus on its tactility and materiality, as well as autobiographical self-portraiture, virtual reality, sound and the written word. Pinkerton’s most recent series, ‘Self Dialogues’, an ongoing multi-part, immersive photographic and moving image series reveals Pinkerton’s personal meditations on themes traversing migrational loneliness, love and desire, family & household tension, Coloniality and Cultural memory.

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. Pinkerton 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.

 

selected works