Robert Dannin

Robert Dannin taught linguistics and anthropology at Brown University and New York University. He studied for his doctorate in Paris and paid for his education by working as a cook and journalist. That’s where he met Tony Gawron and began the collaboration that would result in Trigger, which Dannin continued to work on and finally completed after Gawron’s death. Among Dannin’s scholarly publications, Black Pilgrimage to Islam (Oxford 2002) was the first ethnography of Islamic religious conversion in America. He was the editorial director of Magnum Photos, where he produced Sebastião Salgado Jr.’s Workers, An Archaeology of the Industrial Age, (Aperture 1993). His other editorial credits include James Nachtwey’s Inferno (Phaidon 1999) and Arms Against Fury: Magnum Photographers in Afghanistan (Powerhouse 2002. In 2009 Dannin was an inaugural fellow at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony.