Paloma Passetto is a Brazilian artist based in London. She holds a Master’s degree in Photography from the Royal College of Art.
Passetto de Souza works across analogue photography, moving image, sculpture, performance, and other media to explore themes of identity, belonging, and political resistance. Informed by Latin American decolonial theory, her practice investigates how communities shaped by modernity/coloniality resist Western domination through epistemic disobedience and the honouring of ancestral knowledge.
Contact
palomapassetto@gmail.com
Exhibitions
2026: Time, Well Spent, group exhibition with Grafters Collective at ACME studios, London, UK.
2026: Subject to Disruption, group show at Aspex. Portsmouth, UK.
2025-Southwark Park Galleries annual open, London, UK.
2025-Art & Humanities public exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK.
2025-Der Greif Pictures on a Journey interactive installation at Various Others festival, Munich, Germany.
2025-Unfinished, group exhibition at Royal College of Art. London, UK.
2025-B&W Athens Photo Festival exhibition. Athens, Greece.
2024-Cartão de Visitas, solo show by Coletivo Passetto. Tabapuã, São Paulo, Brazil.
Awards/prizes
2025- Portrait of Britain, British Journal of photography, winner. UK.
2025-Taylor Wessing Prize, National Portrait Gallery, shortlisted. UK.
2025-New Photography Prize 2025, winner. Royal College of Art, UK.
2025-Paris Photo Carte Blanche, finalist. France.
2025-Aspire bursary winner, Aspex Portsmouth, UK.
2024-Paulo Gustavo award, winner. Brazil.
Publications
2026: Featured on Portrait of Britain Vl.8, by the British Journal of Photography.
2025: Love the Elephant, Hate Gentrification. Flipbook printed on Risograph, self published. Exhibited at Offprint fair 2025 at Tate Modern and Index fair 2026 in Mexico City.
2026: Featured on Ají Vol. II by Ají Press. London, UK.