Louie Perea (b. 1999, Santa Fe, NM) is a photographer and visual artist based in New Mexico. Working across photography, moving image, and personal archive, their work considers how images shape visibility, self-representation, and the relationship between being seen and being understood.

Perea received their BA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Psychology from the University of New Mexico. Raised in Santa Fe, their experience navigating Afro-Latinx and nonbinary identity shaped their relationship to photography as both a site of power and a space of self-definition.

Their practice moves between personal and commissioned work, using image-making as a way to question inherited visual narratives and create images rooted in tenderness, contradiction, and refusal. For Perea, images are not passive records, but tools that can define, distort, protect, and reclaim.