Based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Bio
Gui Christ is a lens-based artist whose work investigates the enduring impacts of colonialism in Brazil through the narratives of Afro-diasporic and other historically peripheral communities. Blending contemporary visual language with anthropology and historical research, his images offer critical and immersive perspectives on social inequality, memory, and resistance.
Since 2015, Christ has been working as a documentary photographer, contributing regularly to international media outlets such as Time Magazine, National Geographic, The Washington Post, Geo Magazine, Libération, El País, Die Zeit, and others.
His debut photobook, Marrocos (2016), portrays the largest homeless occupation in São Paulo and was awarded multiple national prizes in Brazil and Latin America, including the Diário Contemporâneo do Pará Prize, the National Photography Prize Pierre Verger and PhotoEspaña Descubrimientos. His second book, Fissura (2020), centered on the world’s largest open-air drug market — the Crackland — received wide international recognition. For this work, Christ was nominated for the Foam Paul Huf Award ( the Netherlands), which highlights the most prominent emerging photographers worldwide, and was listed by European Photography Magazine (Germany) as one of the best photographers of his generation.
Christ’s projects have been exhibited in some of the major international festivals such as Photoville (USA), PhotoEspaña (Spain), Indian PhotoFest (India), Imago (Portugal), Hamburg Portfolio Review (Germany), Encuentros Abiertos (Argentina), and the PhotoVogue Festival (Italy), where he was selected among more than 5,000 applicants as one of Latin America’s 40 most influent emerging artists.
He has received several significant awards and grants, including the Marc Ferrez Photography Prize (Brazil), the Pulitzer Center Grant for Journalism (USA), and the National Geographic Explorer Grant (USA). In 2025, his long-term project M’kumba — which investigates Afro-Brazilian mythologies and religious racism — won first place in the Portrait category at the Sony World Photography Awards (UK), one of the most prestigious photography prizes in the world, as well as the POY Latam (Ecuador), the most important photography award in Latin America.
His photographs and books are part of public and academic collections, including the National Museum of Fine Arts (Brazil), the Museum of Modern Art of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), the São Paulo City Museum (Brazil), Harvard University (USA), the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (France), and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (France), among other cultural institutions.