Jorge Santiago is an independent wedding photojournalist and documentary photographer from Oaxaca, Mexico. He first came into contact with photography at the age of 15, during a workshop entitled "La Mirada Interior" (The Inner Gaze) which attempted to introduce the medium of photography into the indigenous communities in Oaxaca state. From 2004 onwards he has dedicated himself entirely to documentary photography, working with local and international newspapers and magazines. His photographs have been shown collectively and individually in Mexico, Spain, Cuba and the United States. In 2007 he had the opportunity to move to Beijing, China, where he documented the radical transformations in the city and its people in light of the impending Olympics. Upon his return to Oaxaca in 2008, he was offered a scholarship to document the way in which basketball functions to reinforce relationships between Oaxacan villages in the Sierra Juárez and Mexican migrant workers living in the United States. He is currently based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.