Through a multimedia approach, her work explores the intersection of ethnobotany, environmental and human rights, and the living memory of Indigenous communities. She is a National Geographic Explorer and contributor, a Pulitzer Center grantee and a 2024-2025 Magnum Foundation Fellow. She has been awarded with the PhMuseum Grant, the POY Latam award for Ibero-American Photographer of the Year and the Nouvelles Écritures Award from La Gacilly Photo Festival. Most recently, in 2025, she was awarded with the Sony Latin American Award.
Florence Goupil is a French-Peruvian documentary photographer based in Peru. Through a multimedia approach, her work explores the intersection of ethnobotany, environmental and human rights, and the living memory of Indigenous communities.
She is a National Geographic Explorer and contributor, a Pulitzer Center grantee and a 2024-2025 Magnum Foundation Fellow. She has been awarded with the PhMuseum Women Photographers Grant, the POY Latam award for Ibero-American Photographer of the Year and the Nouvelles Écritures Award from La Gacilly Photo Festival. Most recently, in 2025, she was awarded with the Sony Latin America World Photography Prize.
Her photography has been exhibited at Les Rencontres d’Arles, the International Center of Photography (ICP), Photoville Festival, and the Bronx Documentary Center in New York. And published in The New York Times Magazine, National Geographic, Polka Magazine, The BJP, Fisheye, Atmos, among others. She has also co-directed short films such as Cumbia’s Day and Cuidantsiqmi, which were recognized at Shorts México, Felina Festival (Chile), and the Festival International du Film de Nancy in 2023.
A family archive photo taken by my grandmother in the 1970s, marked by white specks—like drops of rainwater—from the passage of time.
Exhibitions:
2024
· Foto Festival Manzana 1, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.
· National Geographic 2024 International Explorers Festival, Lima, Peru.
2023
· Rencontres d’Arles: Presentation of Cumbia’s Day, short film documentary at the Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation in Arles, France
· Mirar Distinto Festival “Dialogues with Plants”, Veracruz, Mexico.
2022
· Festival La Gacilly-Baden Photo, Vienna, Austria (August 18 – 21)
2021
· Visa Pour l’Image, “sterilized women in Peru” for Le Monde at Visa d’or Daily Press
· Bronx Documentary Center, NYC (July 15 – August 1)
· Photoville Festival NYC (September – December)
· La Gacilly Photo Festival, France (June 25 – September 1)
· International Festival of Journalism, Couthures-Sur-Garonne, France