About me

Bénédicte Desrus is a French documentary photographer based in Mérida, Yucatán, Mexico.

She is represented by Sipa Press agency USA and has worked throughout Europe, East Africa and the Americas.
She focuses on social and human-rights issues around the world. Her long-term projects explore the lives of people ostracized by society, and the communities they form to survive and find respect. Recent stories explored the lives of elderly sex workers living in a shelter in Mexico City, the persecution of homosexuals in Uganda, the killing of albinos in Tanzania and the global obesity epidemic.

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Her work has appeared in: NPR, Al Jazeera, Foreign Policy, National Geographic, Netflix, Harper's magazine, The New York Times, Time, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Bloomberg Businessweek, Forbes, World Policy Journal, The Nation, Slate, Saveur, The Toronto Star, Maclean's, Alberta Views, The Financial Times, The Sunday Times magazine, The Guardian, The Observer, BBC, Arise, Le Monde, Libération, Revue 6Mois, Courrier International, L'Équipe, Internazionale, Néon, L'Espresso, Der Spiegel, SuÌˆddeutsche Zeitung, Udvikling, Aftenposten, Jyllands Posten, Dagens Næringsliv, De Volkskrant, Globus, Gazeta Wyborcza, Esquire, Marie Claire, Grazia, Elle, Henne, Annabelle, Welt Der Frauen, La Jornada, El Universal, Soho, Chilango, Gatopardo, Revista Somos, La'Isha, The British Journal of Photography and L'oeil de la Photographie, among others.

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Published in the book "40 ans de photo-journalisme:...Published in "40 ans de photo-journalisme: Génération Sipa" or 40 years of photojournalism: Generation Sipa by Michel Setboun & Sylvie Dauvillier. © 2012, Éditions de La Martinière in France.

She is the co-author of the book "Las amorosas más bravas" or Tough Love. © 2014, FONCA, Mexico.
The eight-year-long project documents the day-to-day lives of the women living at Casa Xochiquetzal, a unique shelter for elderly sex workers in Mexico City.