Initially a high school drop out in the inner-city, he received his BA at the University of California at Berkeley where he graduated magna cum laude with high departmental honors and the award for the best honors thesis in his department. Pin purchased his first camera months before embarking on doctorate program at Berkeley in the Social Sciences and abandoned his studies to pursue photography. In 2010 Pin attended the International Center of Photography in Manhattan, where he was award the Allan L Modotti Scholarship. He is currently working on a long-term project on Cambodian diaspora. Follow