Robert Trafford
Assistant Director / Communications
- signal @bt89.70
Robert, or Bob, is the Director of Forensis e.V. and an Assistant Director with Forensic Architecture.
Robert joined Forensic Architecture in 2017, before which time he worked as a freelance journalist, with bylines for the Intercept, the Times, the Independent, Vice, and elsewhere. Robert holds an MA in Investigative Journalism and a BA (First Class) from the University of Oxford.
- investigations
- The Killing of Ibrahima Barry
- Airstrikes on Minab Primary School
- The Massacre of Aid Workers in Tel al-Sultan
- Three Days at Al-Azhar University: 28-30 January 2024
- The Architecture of Genocidal Starvation
- The Environmental Continuum of Genocide in Namibia
- Shoot Me, I Bare My Chest: The Killing of Abu Sayed
- Police Violence and Misinformation at the 2025 Nakba Day Protest, Berlin
- Return to al-Ma'in
- The Index of Repression
- Escaping Libya's Detention Industry
- The Massacre at Tur Al-Zagh: Al-Dawayima, 29 October 1948
- Israel's Destruction of the Port of Gaza
- The Evros/Meriç River: A Century of Border Design
- A Cartography of Genocide: Israel's Conduct in Gaza since October 2023
- 'When it Stopped Being a War': The Situated Testimony of Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Swakopmund
- Chemical Fire at Marathon Refinery
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: Shark Island
- The Killing of Hind Rajab
- The Grenfell Tower Fire: Situated Testimonies
- German Colonial Genocide in Namibia: The Hornkranz Massacre
- German Arms Exports to Israel
- ‘No traces of life’: Israel’s Ecocide in Gaza 2023-2024
- Humanitarian Violence in Gaza
- The Murder of June Knightly
- Drift-backs in the Aegean Sea
- Destruction of Medical Infrastructure in Gaza
- The Killing of Sammy Baker
- The Killing of Dilan Cruz
- Executions and Mass Graves in Tantura, 23 May 1948
- 'Tear Gas Tuesday' in Downtown Portland
- A City Within a Building: The Mariupol Drama Theatre
- Fire in Moria Refugee Camp
- The Beirut Port Explosion: Destruction of Destruction
- The Beirut Port Explosion: The Welders
- Shireen Abu Akleh: The Extrajudicial Killing of a Journalist
- Gold Mining and Violence in the Amazon Rainforest
- Russian Strike on the Kyiv TV Tower
- Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Police Operation
- Living Archaeology in Gaza
- Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: The Case of Parvin
- Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Arena Bar
- The Forest Under Detection
- Dispossession and The Memory of the Earth: Land Dispossession in Nueva Colonia
- The Black Boxes of Disappearance: Enforced Disappearance in the Siege of the Palace of Justice
- Digital Violence: How the NSO Group Enables State Terror
- Environmental Racism in Death Alley, Louisiana
- European Arms in the Bombing of Yemen
- Torture and Detention in Myanmar
- The Extrajudicial Execution of Ahmad Erekat
- NSO Group’s Breach of Private Data with ‘Fleming’, a COVID-19 Contact-Tracing Software
- Tear Gas in Plaza de la Dignidad
- The Beirut Port Explosion
- Police Brutality at the Black Lives Matter Protests
- Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: Situated Testimony
- The Killing of Muhammad al-Arab
- Pushbacks in Melilla: ND and NT v. Spain
- The Killing of Mark Duggan
- Cloud Studies
- The Killing of Muhammad Gulzar
- Model Zoo
- The Beating of Faisal al-Natsheh
- Shipwreck at the Threshold of Europe, Lesvos, Aegean Sea
- Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: The case of Ayşe Erdoğan
- Pushbacks Across the Evros/Meriç River: Analysis of video evidence
- Oil and Gas Pollution in Vaca Muerta
- The Killing of Harith Augustus
- Shooting in Kafr Qaddum
- The Battle of Ilovaisk
- MatchKing: Warren B. Kanders and the Israeli army
- Triple-Chaser
- Chemical Attacks in Al Lataminah
- The Killing of Zak Kostopoulos
- The Killing of Tahir Elçi
- Lethal Warning: The killing of Luai Kahil and Amir al-Nimrah
- The Murder of Pavlos Fyssas
- The Destruction of Yazidi Cultural Heritage
- Chemical Attacks in Douma
- The Grenfell Tower Fire
- The Ali Enterprises Factory Fire
- The Enforced Disappearance of the Ayotzinapa Students
- Torture and Detention in Cameroon
- events
- Forensic Architecture: Racist Terror Attack in Hanau: The Arena Bar - Screening + Q&A
- Citizens of Evidence
- #CIJSummer Investigative Journalism Conference 2019
- press
- Forensic Architecture : quelle place pour la vérité dans les lieux d'art ?
- Voices of VR Podcast | Bob Trafford on Forensic Architecture’s Spatial Storytelling Innovations Receiving Peabody Institution Award
- Who Makes Money from Tear Gas?
- Pentagon Denies Knowledge of Cameroon Base Abuses – Despite Being Aware of Reports of Torture
- Cameroonian Troops Tortured and Killed Prisoners at Base Used for U.S. Drone Surveillance