Imogen Piper

London

Motion Graphics Reporter

Education: Goldsmiths University of London, MA in Research Architecture, BA in Design

Imogen Piper is a motion graphics reporter for The Washington Post's Visual Forensics team. Before joining The Post, she worked as an investigator at conflict monitor Airwars. While receiving her master's in research architecture at Goldsmiths University of London, Piper was trained in visual investigative techniques by Forensic Architecture researchers. She subsequently worked with Forensic Architecture and Bellingcat to report on the police response during the Black Lives Matter protests in 2020, analyzing and geolocating videos showing police violence against journalists, medics and protest
Latest from Imogen Piper

Israel has waged one of this century’s most destructive wars in Gaza

The damage in Gaza has outpaced other recent conflicts, evidence shows. Israel has dropped some of the largest bombs commonly used today near hospitals.

December 23, 2023

How Hamas exploited Israel’s reliance on tech to breach barrier on Oct. 7

This Post video shows how Hamas fighters neutralized long-range cameras, sophisticated sensors and remote-control weapons.

November 17, 2023

Mapping Israel’s ground assault into Gaza

The Washington Post geolocated videos, photos and satellite images to understand where Israeli’s ground assault has reached within Gaza.

October 31, 2023

A barrage and a midair explosion: What visual evidence shows about the Gaza hospital blast

Videos analyzed by The Washington Post reveal that rockets were launched from Gaza in the direction of al-Ahli Hospital 44 seconds before an explosion there.

October 26, 2023

A mom, her girls and festival-goers: The captives Hamas took to Gaza

Families of Doron Asher Katz and her daughters, Aviv and Raz, Omer Wenkert and Omer Shem-Tov say they are being held in Gaza as Israel wages war with Hamas.

October 12, 2023

How a night of dancing and revelry in Israel turned into a massacre

At least 260 bodies have been recovered from the site of a trance music festival in Israel, one of the first targets for Hamas militants as they launched their surprise attack Saturday.

October 8, 2023

Videos show captives in Gaza and Israel

The Washington Post has independently verified three videos appearing to show captives held in Gaza and surrounding areas in Israel.

October 7, 2023

The final 11 seconds of a fatal Tesla Autopilot crash

A lawsuit over the crash could determine whether the maker of the technology bears some responsibility when things go wrong in a vehicle guided by Autopilot.

October 6, 2023

Maui’s neglected grasslands caused Lahaina fire to grow with deadly speed

A Washington Post investigation retraced the fire’s path, revealing that nonnative invasive grasses were key to creating the fast-moving, uncontrollable blaze.

September 2, 2023

How hundreds of migrants drowned on Greece’s watch

On June 14, a ship with as many as 750 migrants aboard from countries including Pakistan and Syria sank off the Greek coast. Hundreds of people died. We hear about what happened and about a Post investigation that suggests this was a preventable tragedy.

July 13, 2023