Santiago Arau is a Mexican photographer and filmmaker. Born in Mexico City in 1980, he is recognized primarily for his work with aerial photography and documenting life in Mexico City. During the last years, Santiago has documented life in Mexico City from the air, where he has photographed landscapes, massive open-air concerts, marches and protests, the periphery and also the volcanoes that surround it.

Throughout 20 years of experience he has participated in individual and group exhibitions in places such as Casa América in Madrid (Spain) in 2015, the Biennale di Venezia (Italy) 2017, the Museum of Modern Art of the Philippines 2013, the Metropolitan Theater Tokyo (2021) and at the Palacio de Bellas Artes (Mexico) 2019 to mention a few.

His photographs have been published in different international media, such as the BBC, NYT or El País, also in specialized photography publications such as National Geographic, by the majority of Mexican media and by the Ministry of Culture and the Federal Government of Mexico. He has also collaborated with national and international associations such as Greenpeace, Amnesty International and the United Nations.

In 2017 he co-directed a documentary about the earthquake in Mexico City entitled “Ciudad Herida” which was nominated for the Ariel 2018, Emmy 2018 and winner of the IDA Documentary Awards 2019 other festivals as best short documentary and was presented in New York City at the Museum del Barrio in 2018.

Recently, he made a trip throughout Mexico that led him to publish his first book entitled “Territories” in 2020.

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