Cruz, Valdir

Valdir Cruz (born 1952) is a Brazilian-American photographer. Born in Guarapuava, in the southern state of Paraná, Brazil, Cruz has lived in the United States since 1984. He currently divides his time between his studios in New York City and São Paulo. Much of his work in photography has focused on the people, architecture and landscape of Brazil. In 1996 Cruz was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for Faces of the Rainforest, a project documenting the life of indigenous people in the Brazilian Rainforest. The Guggenheim Foundation further supported this project with a publication subvention award in 2000. His work is held in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York Public Library and Brooklyn Museum, among others.