"Photographs are important to our humanity, to our sense of moral outrage and right, even as we cry in desperation at the pictures of innocents trying to cope without succor or hope. The images speak to a future because, once seen, they cannot be ignored."
Colin is one of the foremost documentary photographers in the world and a four-time Picture of the Year Award winner. Finlay's visual talent also allows him to work behind the video camera. In 2000, his work was part of a news crew that won an EMMY award for the FOX documentary "Black vs. Brown: When Colors Collide," an exploration of interracial tensions between teenagers in Los Angeles. He has twice been nominated for an EMMY as an individual.
Over the years, his reportage of important issues such as child labor and the plight of India's working class, has earned him a long list of other prestigious industry awards.
His images have been shown in group exhibitions at the UN headquarters. This year heralds the publication of Finlay's second book, Testify, a sequel to The Unheard Voice: Portraits of Childhood.
