Juan Brenner is a self-taught photographer and director who lives and works between Guatemala City and the US.

Juan Brenner is a self-taught photographer and director who lives and works between Guatemala City and the US. His first monograph “Tonatiuh” was nominated for Aperture’s First Book Award and won the 2019 Lensculture's Emerging Talent Award. After working in New York as a fashion photographer for over a decade, Brenner returned to his native Guatemala where he began making work about the people and complex territory in the country’s Western Highlands. Juan uses photography to reflect on the fluidity and abstract nature of identity and territory, his images capture the complexities of cultural hybridization and, more poignantly, the way power, hierarchical structures and inequality are instrumentally continued through time. His works have been featured in publications including Aperture, British Journal of Photography, Le Monde, VICE, C-41, Aint Bad, Fisheye, Booooooom, California Sunday Magazine, Paper Journal, Collector Daily, I-D Magazine, Dazed and Confused, Pardo, Loupe, Palm Studios, Metal Magazine, Musee, JOIA and Balam Magazine. His latest book, Genesis, was published in 2024 by Guest Editions.

Client List
Nike, Airbnb, California Sunday, Departures Magazine, Atmos, Epic, Art Review, The New York Times, Loewe, Wallpaper, Facebook, Monocle and more.