Santiago Carrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1982. He has dedicated exclusively to photography since he was 20 years old.

For 8 years he worked and taught at the Diego Ortiz Mugica Studio. Between 2010 and 2013 he made different productions for Marcos López. He attended the work clinic with Julieta Escardó.
His work was selected in the «Arte x Arte» prize, in «People of my City» from Banco Ciudad, in «Itaú Visual Arts 2016» and in the FNA Visual Arts Award in 2018.
He was awarded at the National Salon of Visual Arts in 2009 and obtained the «Felifa Dot» award for the publication of Latin American independent author photography books in 2014.
In May 2016, my book «Underwater» was selected for the 10×10 American Photobook Exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Since 2017 it has been part of a complete collection in the Hirsch Library of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.
In 2016 and 2019, he held individual exhibitions at the «Doppia V» gallery in Switzerland and in 2018 he was part of the “6.7 GB” exhibition at CWS, Museum of Contemporary Art in Torun, Poland.