Santiago Ruisenor is a Photographer and Director based in Mexico City.
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I’m the son of a biochemist and a veterinarian—two people who taught me curiosity and precision from very different worlds. I started out studying architecture, but after a year, I realized I was drawn to something else. So I packed a bag, boarded a cargo ship, and set sail for London. There, I took a semester of photography at Central Saint Martins, and that experience changed everything. From then on, I kept moving—through Europe, the Middle East, and North Africa—always with a camera in hand, trying to capture light, and the stories hidden in everyday life.
Over the years, my work has taken me from the music scene to fashion, where I spent eight incredible years as a photo editor at ELLE Mexico. Since then, I’ve been lucky enough to shoot for some of the world’s leading fashion magazines—ELLE, Harper’s Bazaar, GQ, Vogue, Grazia, Esquire, Marie Claire—each one a new chance to explore how people express themselves.
My commercial projects have allowed me to collaborate with brands like Palacio de Hierro, Scappino, Nautica, C&A, Nike, Moncler, Apple Music, American Eagle, Women’secret, Mary Kay, and H&M, among others.
But at the heart of it all, I’m still chasing the same thing that first drew me to photography: that fleeting, perfect moment when light, movement, and emotion come together to tell a story worth remembering.