Guy Veloso

Guy Benchimol de Veloso was born and works in Belém in the State of Pará, Brazil, a city of 1.5 million inhabitants in the Amazon rainforest.

A Law graduate by Federal University of Pará, he has been a photographer since 1989, with several international publications to his credit.

Invited by the curators Agnaldo Farias and Moacir dos Anjos, the latest project of Guy Veloso, The Penitents: Rituals of blood to the fascination of the world’s end, attended the 29th São Paulo Art Biennial(2010).

In the same year he launched the book Photography in Brazil: A Look from the Origins to the Contemporary by Angela Magalhães e Nadja Peregrino.

In 2011 he was Chief-curator of the Brazilian Contemporary Photography Section in the XXIII Bienal Europalia Arts Festival in Brussels - Belgium.

Florianópolis , Santa Catarina , Brazil . 29th São Paulo International Biennial/2010. Slide.
Penitents, Sergipe- Brazil , 2002. Gelatin silver print.