Pete Muller is an award-winning photojournalist and multimedia reporter based in Nairobi, Kenya. His work explores issues of conflict, masculinity and nationalism in post-colonial states. He strives to create images and material that demand emotional and intellectual consideration to the lives and experiences of those depicted.

Muller covers East and Central Africa for a number of publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Monocle Magazine and others. He has also partnered on humanitarian advocacy campaigns with Amnesty International, UNICEF, the Nobel Women’s Initiative and others.

In addition to such projects, Muller is currently developing a body of work that examines the relationship between masculinity and violence in eastern Congo, Namibia and South Africa. This work has been made possible through a grant from the Open Society Initiative of Southern Africa.

Between 2009-2012, he was based in South Sudan where he documented the country’s precarious transition to independence.

Muller has contributed photography and reporting to outlets including The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME Magazine, Foreign Policy Magazine, Newsweek Magazine, National Geographic, Public Radio International, Paris Match and others.

In 2011, Muller was named Wire Photographer of the Year by TIME Magazine. In 2012, he was awarded the John Faber Award for Best Photographic News Reporting from the Overseas Press Club of America. In 2013 his work on gun culture in the United States was awarded 3rd place in the Sony World Photography Awards and he received Honorable Mention for his coverage of the border war between Sudan and South Sudan. In 2013, the Diplomatic Courier Magazine named him of the 99 Most Influential Young People in Foreign Policy. His work on mass rape and mobile tribunals was also featured in the 19th Annual Open Society Foundation Moving Walls Documentary Photography Project.