Fin de Pencier

Class of 2026

Fin de Pencier is a journalist, photographer and filmmaker specializing in conflict and international relations. Over the past five years, he has reported on the ground during some of the world’s most momentous crises. He was in Kharkiv, Ukraine, during the early hours of Russia’s full-scale invasion in 2022. He witnessed the ethnic cleansing of Armenians from Nagorno-Karabakh in the fall of 2023. He spent most of 2024 in Lebanon covering the war between Israel and Hezbollah. Later that year, he became the first Canadian journalist to enter Syria after the fall of the Assad regime. His work has appeared in The Spectator, CBC News, C2C Journal, GZERO Media and other outlets. He shares most of his work on Instagram and occasionally on X, @finlookedintoit.