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Benjamin Alexandrovich Guez was born in the Soviet Union,
and at the age of nine immigrated to Chicago with his family.
His first encounter with photography was in early childhood
through his father, a theatre and film photographer in Leningrad.
After graduating with a degree in history and Latin American
studies from the University of Arizona in 2006, he resumed his
documentation and research of large metropolises (Bogota,
Buenos Aires, Havana, Mexico City) and isolated communities
in the Americas (Sierra Madre in Mexico, Colombian/Ecuadorian
Pacific, and maroon settlements of the Caribbean among others).