Photographer and visual artist, Cris Bierrenbach is one of the references in Brazil’s contemporary photography. Inventive and artisanal, her main subjects comprise the feminine body, gender issues, identity and the self-portrait.
Cris Bierrenbach graduated in Geology before taking the cinema course at the School of Art and Communications of the University of São Paulo (ECA-USP). She carried out her first solo show at the Museum of Image and Sound (Museu da Imagem e do Som – MIS), in 1990. She was employed by the Folha de São Paulo company, having worked in the newspaper between 1989 and 1992, and at Revista da Folha magazine between 1992 and 1996. In the same year, she was photography editor of the first few issues of the República magazine and illustrated the first Brazilian fotonovela (fotonovel or photostory), titled The Muscovite (O Moscovita), geared towards internet advertising for the UOL website. Her photographs are also featured in magazines such as Vogue, Carta Capital and Marie Claire.
