Bio

Christian Moorman is a Guyanese-American photographer based in Paris. 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. 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. Over the past year, he has focused on chapters that explore the country’s sugar industry, which his grandfather worked in for more than two decades.