Based in São Paulo, Brazil.
Bio
Gui Christ is a Brazilian lens-based artist whose practice investigates the legacies of colonialism and the social and cultural dynamics that shape Brazil’s peripheral territories. Through an approach that bridges documentary practices with contemporary art, his work creates narratives that challenge the boundaries between art, anthropology, and history.
Since 2015, he has been a regular contributor to some of the world’s most prestigious media outlets, with prominent publications in Time Magazine, National Geographic Magazine, Billboard, El País, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, Internazionale, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, among others. His documentary practice brings global audiences critical reflections on Brazilian social realities, particularly those of peripheral and racialized communities.
His work has been featured in major international photography festivals, including PhotoEspaña (Spain), Festival de la Luz (Argentina), Addis FotoFest (Ethiopia), Imago Lisboa (Portugal), Photoville (United States), and Indian PhotoFest (India). In 2024, he was selected from over 5,000 artists to represent Latin America at PhotoVogue (Italy), one of the world’s leading platforms for both emerging and established photographers.
Gui Christ has received some of the most prestigious awards and recognitions in global photography. He is the winner of the Sony World Photography Awards 2025, in the Portrait category — the largest and most important photography award in the world. In 2023, he was awarded at POY Latam, the most significant prize for photojournalism and documentary photography in Latin America. He is also a grantee of both the Rainforest Pulitzer Center Grant for Journalism and the National Geographic Explorer Grant, supporting his long-term research into the impacts of structural racism on Afro-Brazilian communities.