Virginia Hines is a photographer and photography writer based in San Francisco, California. She began photographing during high school, working part-time for the local newspaper where her parents were editors. In college at Rice University she studied photography with Geoff Winningham. Later she resumed her photographic education, studying with notable artists including Harvey Stein, Bruce Gilden, Todd Hido, and Alex Webb. She is a frequent contributor to Street Photography Magazine, which featured her in its Year of Women Photographers (2021). She has been the subject of two podcast interviews with Street Photography Magazine and her photographs have appeared in many other print and digital publications, including Smithsonian Magazine, Portrait of Humanity 2021, The Lancet Global Health (March 2020 cover), L'Oeil de la Photographie, All About Photo, The Independent Photographer, and F-Stop Magazine. Her work has been exhibited internationally, including Prix Bayeux Calvados-Normandie, American Society of Media Photographers, Miami Street Photography Festival, and Women Street Photographers. She has written essays for two photography monographs, including the introduction to Harvey Stein's Coney Island People: 50 Years (Schiffer, 2022).