Christo Geoghegan (b. 1988) is an award-winning, queer, British & Irish documentary photographer, filmmaker and visual journalist based in London, UK.
Recently he completed his first book, 'Witch Hunt Vol I: The Banished of Balsapuerto'. The first instalment of a larger body of work investigating the global rise in human rights abuses through "harmful practices related to manifestations of belief in witchcraft". In 2018, he was invited to the United Nations in Geneva to participate in the organisation's first experts meeting to acknowledge and discuss the epidemic. He has since gone on to speak extensively about the topic at other high-profile institutions.
'Witch Hunt Vol. I: The Banished of Balsapuerto' was awarded the prestigious Les Rencontres d'Arles PRIX DU LIVRE Author’s Book Award (2023) and was also shortlisted for the Luma Rencontres Dummy Book Award Arles (2020), the Images Vevey Book Award (2021) and the MACK First Book Award (2021).
His extensive and award-nominated documentary film work has been screened at prestigious international film festivals such as CPH:Dox in Copenhagen and has seen him nominated for top prizes such as GLAAD Media Awards Outstanding Digital Media Award for his 2014 VICE News documentary film “Young and Gay: Jamaica’s Gully Queens” which he both produced and featured as an on-screen correspondent. Most recently, Netflix commissioned him to direct and produce three documentary shorts on queer representation in the UK.
Email: christo.geoghegan@gmail.com