Apolline Guillerot-Malick is a French documentary photographer with a background in art history and journalism. In the last few years, her documentary work has taken her from Sweden to Benin, Moldova, and Romania. In 2022, she moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, where she spent two years photographing prison environments, Indigenous struggles, and life in the Amazonian town of Fordlândia. She relocated to New York in 2024.
She has notably led a photography project on the role of West African Vodun in environmental protection, for French newspapers Ouest-France and Reporterre, and directed the photographic film 24 Kilometers, which follows the journey of three Ukrainian women refugees in a Romanian Orthodox monastery. Her work has appeared in U.S. publications including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and Sojourners, as well as in international outlets such as Le Monde, Le Parisien, Le Figaro, and Al Jazeera. She was awarded a Tallichet Freedman Foundation microgrant in 2025.
While at MacDowell, Guillerot-Malick worked on her photography project Fordlândia, which traces the legacy of Henry Ford’s failed rubber plantation in the Brazilian Amazon, through portraits of descendants of Brazilian workers and American foremen.
