Danilo Christidis is a documentary photographer, videomaker and visual educator. Holds individual and collective exhibitions of different works in Brazil and abroad. He received two awards from the National Arts Foundation (FUNARTE): the Scholarship for Stimulating Artistic Creation in Visual Arts with the project “Estante Pública” and the Funarte Scholarship for Critical Reflection and Cultural Production for the Internet with the project “Urban Exorcisms”. He was the creator, director and teacher of Fluxo - Escola de Fotografia Expandida for 4 years, a space dedicated to teaching and promoting the arts and visual languages. He participated in the 9th Mercosul Arts Biennial in 2013 and the 6th Argentine Photography Biennial in 2014, among other festivals. He was a member of the board of curators of the 8th Porto Alegre International Photography Festival.
For seven years, he lived with different communities of the indigenous Mbyá Gurarani ethnic group, together with the indigenous Mbyá photographer, Vherá Poty. This relationship made it possible to create a book released in August 2015. The work entitled “Os Guarani Mbyá” was the first photographic publication in the history of Br
