Santiago Porter (photographer) was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1971. His awards and recognitions include a Guggenheim Fellowship (2002), a grant from Fundación Antorchas in Buenos Aires (2002), First Prize in Photography from the Central Society of Architects of Buenos Aires (2007), the Petrobras–BAphoto Award (2008), a National Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (2010), and the Konex Award for Visual Arts (2023).
He is the author of the books Piezas (2003), La Ausencia (2007), Bruma (2017), and Los días nublados (2023). He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay, Paraguay, Colombia, Ecuador, Chile, the United States, Spain, France, Germany, Switzerland, and Egypt.
His work is part of public and private collections in Argentina and abroad, including the Museum of Latin American Art of Buenos Aires (MALBA), the National Museum of Fine Arts in Buenos Aires, the Museum of Modern Art of Buenos Aires, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Rosario, the Emilio Caraffa Provincial Museum of Fine Arts in Córdoba, the Museum of Art and Memory in La Plata, Museo en los Cerros in Jujuy, and the Museum of Architecture in Buenos Aires. International collections include the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, the Jewish Museum in New York, the J.P. Morgan Chase Collection in New York, the Fondation Antoine de Galbert Collection in Paris, the Balanz Collection in Buenos Aires, and the Larivière Collection in Buenos Aires, among others.
Santiago Porter currently teaches in the Department of Social Sciences at Universidad de San Andrés and in the Bachelor’s Degree in Photography program at the National University of San Martín.