Robin Hinsch is an artist and photographer based in Hamburg and Berlin, Germany. His work focuses on social, economic and political issues. He often combines photography with film collages and installation.
He studied photography in Karlsruhe, Hanover and Hamburg and holds a master's degree in photography. In 2017 he founded Format, a laboratory for contemporary photography in Hamburg. Since 2024 he has been a professor of artistic photography at the University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Darmstadt.
His book Wahala was published by GOST Books in 2022. He photographed the oil fields of the Niger Delta in Nigeria, the coal belt of Jharkhand in India, and open cast mines in Germany and Poland. In Yoruba, wahala means problem or stress.
His book Lonely Are All the Bridges was published by GOST Books in 2026. The pictures were made in Ukraine over more than a decade. He first visited the country in 2010.
His work has won awards including the World Photography Awards and the Georg Koppmann Prize.
