Photographing Faith: M’Kumba and the Visual Awakening of Gui Christ
In Brazil, macumba has long been used as an insult—a word meant to diminish what it does not understand. Photographer Gui Christ reclaims it as an affirmation of belonging. M’Kumba is not a report about Afro-Brazilian religions; it is an act of visual restoration. Through ritual, memory, and the sacred pulse of the drum, Christ moves beyond documentation and into reclamation—transforming photography into a space where ancestral dignity is seen, embodied, and restored from within.