Description
Emmanuel Tolentino Santos is a photographer based in Melbourne, Australia. His extensive travels inform his photographic essays, which focus on diaspora and ancient cultures. His portfolios speak to this, through visual interpretations of themes, stories, and myths from communities across the world. His works are in the collections of the State Library of Victoria, the National Gallery of Australia, the Victorian Arts Center, the National Library of Australia, the Holocaust Centre, the Immigration Museum, the Parliament House, the Bibliotheque Nationale de France, the Musee d’Art et Histoire du Judaisme in Paris etc. His photographs have been widely exhibited in Australia, the Philippines, Ukraine, Brazil, France, China, Switzerland, Italy and the Czech Republic. His solo exhibitions include: Shadow Earth, Art Fair Philippines (2020), The Jews Of Greece, Hellenic Center, Western Australia (2019), 2nd EARTH, Cultural Center of the Philippines (2014), Sandugo, Compacto del Sangre, Festival de la Luz, Buenos Aires, Argentina (2012), The Book Of Illumination, Silverlens Gallery, Manila (2009), and The Passing Of Light, Primo Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy (2008).