Christian Moorman was born in San Francisco, USA in 1996. He is a Guyanese-American photographer based between Paris and Guyana. Prior to taking up photography, he spent 8 years studying philosophy and human rights law in the UK and Austria.
He began taking photographs during the pandemic, and his interests in politics, history, and ethics drew him to documentary photography. He allows these interests to guide his practice, and is especially interested in projects exploring themes related to the legacies of colonialism, as well as the complicated experiences of diasporic communities. He is committed to producing work that is well-researched and ethically produced.
In 2024/25, he studied documentary photography in Paris, as part of a course taught by Spéos Photography School and Magnum, and is currently a freelance photographer.
Christian is working on a long-term project documenting the transformations taking place in Guyana following the discovery of oil off its shores in 2015. Additionally, since 2024, he has worked on projects about labourers in the country’s sugar industry, Venezuelan refugees on the country’s border, and the intersection of landscape and postcolonial memory in the Caribbean.
