Santiago Barreiro (1985) is a National Geographic Explorer & Aljazeera (AJ+) contributor, photographer, and storyteller. His approach mainly focuses on the study of dance, humanitarian topics, gender, and minorities. As a result of his interest in dance, Barreiro, who is originally from Uruguay, has photographed ballerinas at Uruguay’s national ballet company, Ballet Nacional Sodre, as well as Cuba’s National Ballet School, one of the premier ballet institutes in the world. He has dedicated his work to investigating, studying, and photographing the world of dance in both a documentary and a conceptual way, collaborating constantly with various entities of the world of dance and on a personal level developing photographic research projects.
