Gustavo Minas is a Brazilian photographer born in Minas Gerais in 1981. He studied under Brazil's master Carlos Moreira and also took workshops with Gueorgui Pinkhassov and Nikos Economopoulos. In 2017, his "Bus Station" series won the Pictures of the Year LATAM award in the category “The Future of the Cities” and was shown at the Venice Architecture Biennale 2021. His first book “Maximum Shadow, Minimal Light” was released in May 2019 by Edition Lammerhuber, alongside a solo show at Freelens Galerie in Hamburg. In 2023, he was nominated for the Leica Oskar Barnack Award with his "Liquid Cities" project, which was published as a book in August 2024.