Santiago Carrera

Born in 1982 in Buenos Aires (Argentina), since 2002 he has devoted himself exclusively to photography. After a long stay in the studio of Diego Ortiz Mugica, he collaborated with Marcos López, for whom he produced numerous photographic productions. He then developed and coordinated his own creative projects under the tutelage of Julieta Escardó, photographer and founder of the independent publishing house "La Luminosa".

He has participated in numerous exhibitions in Argentina and South America; at the same time, his work has been chosen and awarded in various contexts, including “Arte x Arte Premio” and “Gente de mi ciudad” by Banco Ciudad. In 2009, "La Pelopincho" won third place at the prestigious Salón Nacional de Artes Visuales in Buenos Aires. In 2014 his photobook 'Submarino' received the "Felifa Dot Prize" for the best independent publication in Latin America, was donated to the Hirsch Library of the Fine Arts Museum in Houston and participated in the exhibition 10x10 American Photobook , a traveling exhibition in the United States which took place between 2016 and 2017.

In 2016 the image "Sustancia I" reached the final of the Itaú Artes Visuales competition.

In 2016 and 2019 he had solo exhibitions at the “Doppia V” gallery in Switzerland and in 2018 he was part of the “6.7 GB” exhibition at the CWS, Torun Museum of Contemporary Art in Poland.

Lives and works in Buenos Aires.