
Peru // London
Nicolás Garrido is a Peruvian photographer based between Lima, London and Paris. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Communications from Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC) and completed the Annual Photography Program at Centro de la Imagen in Lima.
In 2024, he co-inaugurated Alquimia Textil with María Lucía Muñoz at the Cultural Foundation Gallery of Banco de la Nación in Cusco. The project received the 2025 Sony World Photography Award in the Environment category and was subsequently presented as part of the Sony World Photography Awards international touring exhibition. That same year, his work and creative process were featured in the British Journal of Photography (MAPS #7923).
His photographs have also been published in PhotoVogue. His work has been shown in group exhibitions in Peru and internationally. He currently develops long-term personal documentary projects focused on cultural heritage, while working commercially in fashion and portraiture.
My work sits at the intersection of documentary, conceptual, and fashion photography, using elements from each to reflect on identity, territory, and the relationship between humanity and its environment. I am interested in how cultural memory, material processes, and everyday gestures can reveal forms of knowledge that persist outside dominant narratives.
I work primarily with analog photography, which I understand as an affective and unstable archive. For me, analog processes allow the image to exist not only as representation, but as a physical trace shaped by time, chemistry, and matter. In recent years, I have incorporated alternative photographic techniques such as Van Dyke printing and experimented with organic materials, allowing natural processes to intervene in the image. These methods emphasize photography as a tactile practice and transform each photograph into a unique object.
Much of my work engages with ancestral crafts, traditional technologies, and forms of embodied knowledge in Latin America that remain present yet are often overlooked, folklorised, or detached from the communities that sustain them. Through long-term projects, I seek to create a dialogue between memory and experimentation, where photography becomes a space to question how we inhabit territory today and how images can carry traces of lived experience beyond the visual.