Gustavo Minas

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL

Gustavo Minas was born in Cássia, Brazil in 1981. He graduated in journalism from the State University of Londrina and studied language and history of photography with Carlos Moreira in São Paulo. Since 2009, he has been photographing the daily life of the cities where he lives. In 2017, his "Bus Station" series won the Pictures of the Year LATAM award in the category “The Future of the Cities”. This project was exhibited at the Centro de Fotografía de Montevideo in 2018 and during the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. His first book “Maximum Shadow, Minimal Light” was released in May 2019 by Edition Lammerhuber, alongside a solo show at Freelens Galerie in Hamburg, Germany. In 2023, his "Liquid Cities" series was one of the finalists of the Leica Oskar Barnack Award and launched was a book by Eyeshot one year later. In 2024, he presented his work made in São Paulo at the NGV Triennial in Melbourne, Australia.