Asafe Ghalib (b. 1990, Nilópolis, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) is an artist working primarily in photography in collaboration with LGBTQIA+ communities. Self-taught, Asafe explores his identity and relationship to the environments he inhabits, using photography as a means of survival and to tell neglected stories. Raised in a religious family, his work embraces rebellion to reclaim identity and history, challenging dominant ideas about masculinity, gender, sexuality, and representation of LGBTQIA+ people.
Asafe was named one of Photo London’s “Ones to Watch” in 2021 and featured on the cover story of the British Journal of Photography. Creative Review included him among its Zeitgeist winners in 2021 for photographers who made an impact that year. In 2022 Asafe was selected as a winner in the Annual Photography Awards 2021. He won first prize in the ProfiFoto New Talent Award (23/1) in Germany and exhibited at Photo 2024, Melbourne/Victoria International Photography Festival and Pride Photo 2024 in Amsterdam. He is also participating in Rotterdam Photo Festival’s - Echoes of Silence 2026 with his new project, Under the Same Sun.