“We have never been confronted by such images, which are so direct, so devoid of romanticism and yet so sensitive at the same time. Pin-Fat presents his work in gigantic albums, which refer more to the format of ‘real’ cinema than to documentary, emphasizing the fascinating aspect of his generous as well as disturbing approach. Finding the same chaos that shakes the world in the organization of his own work, Olivier Pin-Fat seems to wish to force us to ask ourselves what is ‘really’ happening around us." – Christian Caujolle, writer, curator, photography critic & founder of Gallery VU and Agence VU.

Olivier Pin-Fat was born in Norfolk, England in 1969. He left Great Britain for Asia at the age of 23 to pursue photographic engagements with the 'unknown.'.

His work has been exhibited internationally, including Gallery VU (Paris), Noordelicht (Holland), Photo Espana 2001 (Madrid), Paris Photo (2000, 2005 & 2007), Foto Biennale of Rotterdam (Nederlands Foto Instituut, 2000), Pingyao and Lianzhou International Photo Festivals 2001 & 2006 (China), Agnes B (London), The Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Recontres Internationales de Photographie (Arles, France), Le Centre d’Art Contemporain de Basse-Normandie (France), Le Centre National des Arts Plastiques (Paris, 2008), ‘(About) Photography Gallery’ (1996, Bangkok), ‘(About) Studio’ (Bangkok, 1998), Kathmandu Photo Gallery (2007 & 2010 - Bangkok), & The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (2009) - to mention a few.

It has appeared in leading international publications and is in numerous private collections.

From 1998 until 2008, he was a member of ‘Gallery VU’ and ‘Agence VU’ in Paris. In November 2009 he joined 'prospekt' in Milan, Italy.

His work is “founded on a great visual freedom, a sense of urgency” - images from the ‘real’ which have “a sensitive, astonishing, fictional and lyrical dimension.”
“Unceasingly seeking to repudiate the limits of direct representation to favour impressionism, questioning an unstable universe, his images are unclassifiable."
Christian Caujolle.

He works with film only, using small and medium format cameras, a flash and Light meter. If there is order in his work, it's only to emphasise a strong sense of disorder he feels. Not so interested in singular images, he finds much deeper hidden narratives in how they inter-relate and communicate with one another. This to him is where messages speak. He considers editing and designing ‘streams’ or installations of photographs as important as - and in many ways parallel to - the actual process of photographing itself. He develops his own film and handprints his own images.

In May 2009, his book "DEAD LIGHT, BONE DRY" was shortlisted for "The European Publishers Award for Photography" and will be published in 2010.

He continues to work and live in Asia.