Santiago Arau
Mexican photographer and filmmaker born in Mexico City in 1980, recognized primarily for his work with drones.
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 Bienale 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.
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.
He has made sports photographic work at the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and the Olympic Games in Russia, Sochi 2014, obtaining the Golden Ring Award from the International Olympic Committee at a ceremony in the Principality of Monaco.
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.
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.
He has also collaborated with national and international associations such as Greenpeace, Amnesty International and the United Nations.
Recently, he made a trip throughout Mexico that led him to publish his first book entitled “Territories” 2020 edited by the Sexto Piso publishing house and the BBVA Foundation and also a solo exhibition with the same title at the San Idelfonso Museum (2020) and at the Amparo Museum of Puebla (2021).
Currently his work is exhibited in the art gallery of the Rejas de Chapultepec and in the Interactive Museum of Economy along with a new publication of the registry of the COVID 19 pandemic entitled 2020, “Chronicle of a pandemic.”
