Dez Santana is a 27 year old, New York photographer. He does a wide variety of work varying from weddings to graffiti. Santana being born and raised in New York, it has become his main scenery for photography. One of Santana biggest inspirations is Jurgen Grobe. Jurgen, a Berlin street photographer inspired Santana to take photos of graffiti. Santana inspiration to take graffiti because he loved capturing photographs of people expressing themselves for others to see. Santana’s work isn't just one style, he wide range of subjects makes his style of work very unique.
I choose Sanatan as my photographer to base my final project off of because I admire his wide variety of work. I closely chose to focus on his photographing graffiti. The main thing I tried to focus on was the angle that I took the photos at. Angles are something that Sanatan strongly focuses on. The main similarity between my photographs and Sanatan is the concept. We both focused on graffiti. Although the location were different, the areas that I took my photographs in look similar to those of Santan. The backgrounds of some of Sanatana work are more appealing than mine. In Sanatan photographs, he tends to show more of the sky and other surroundings of the subject, unlike in my photographs where I focus more on the subject itself.
I choose Sanatan as my photographer to base my final project off of because I admire his wide variety of work. I closely chose to focus on his photographing graffiti. The main thing I tried to focus on was the angle that I took the photos at. Angles are something that Sanatan strongly focuses on. The main similarity between my photographs and Sanatan is the concept. We both focused on graffiti. Although the location were different, the areas that I took my photographs in look similar to those of Santan. The backgrounds of some of Sanatana work are more appealing than mine. In Sanatan photographs, he tends to show more of the sky and other surroundings of the subject, unlike in my photographs where I focus more on the subject itself.