Drawing on a background in film and years spent location-scouting for major productions, his photographs use space, atmosphere, and leading lines to reflect the emotional landscapes of his mixed heritage and lived experience. Rooted in traditional craft yet distinctly contemporary in tone, Santiago’s images offer a contemplative, cinematic view of the world and our place within it. His landscapes in particular push beyond documentation — they become psychological spaces, using light, contrast, and carefully stripped-back detail to convey solitude, tension, and quiet resilience. Whether working with vast, elemental scenes or intimate fragments of terrain, Santiago shapes the environment into a creative language of mood and meaning, inviting viewers to inhabit the stillness and ambiguity that define his visual world.