Benjamin Fogarty-Valenzuela is a visual ethnographer of contemporary Latin American society and culture, with a focus on Brazil and Guatemala. His current book project, Pedagogies of Occupation, focuses on the politics, pedagogy, and policing of youth in urban Brazil. He is the co-author of Art of Captivity / Arte del Cautiverio (University of Toronto Press 2020) and has published multimodal work in the journals Cultural Anthropology, Current Anthropology, and JRAI. He received a B.A. in Sociocultural Anthropology from Columbia University, and a doctorate in Anthropology from Princeton University in 2019. He was a Mansueto Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology at the University of Chicago before joining the Anthropology Department at Leiden University in 2021.