Florence Goupil

Florence Goupil (Lima, 1990) is a self-taught Peruvian documentary photographer based in Cusco, Peru. She has been an Explorer since 2020 and is a contributor to the National Geographic Society.

The spectre of the Quechua-Wanka culture through her family's orality initiated her interest in photography. To document human rights, ethnobotany, the environment and the living memory of the indigenous peoples of Peru and Latin America.

Her work has been exhibited at the ICP, the Photoville Festival and the Bronx Documentary Center in New York. Published in National Geographic, BBC, Polka Magazine, El País, BJP, NBC News and other international media. In 2020 she was nominated for the Joop Swart Masterclass and received a grant from the National Geographic Society. In the same year, she was awarded the Getty Images Reportage Grant and later the Pulitzer Center Rainforest Journalism Fund.

In 2021, she received an honourable mention from POY Latam as Ibero-American Photographer of the Year and won the Nouvelles Écritures award from the Yves Rocher Foundation's La Gacilly Festival. In 2022, she participated in the Hamburg Portfolio Review and the Pulitzer Center Reporting on Climate Crisis in Washington DC.

In 2023, Florence was invited as a speaker at the National Geographic Summit in Washington DC, where she presented her project "Qutiy, Returning to the Land" on Native American corn. In July, her awarded documentary short film "Cumbia’s Day" was presented at the Manuel Rivera Ortiz Foundation during Les Rencontres pour l’image de Arles, in France. This same year, she received two Pulitzer Center Dom Phillips Reporting grants to work on the Brazil-Peru border on environmental threats affecting the Amazon.