Joel Santos

documentary

photographer & filmmaker

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Featured galleries

Salt Miner Caravan, Danakil Depression, Ethiopia_Banner.jpg — ICONIC PHOTOGRAHPS

Curated photos

FISHERMEN

ancestral wisdom

SOCOTRA - YEMEN

Dragon blood trees, golden sand

SALT & LAVA

ethiopia - Salt miners and volcanoes

NIGER

Wodaabe mating ceremonies, Hausa & Adobe

Azores Caldeirao do Corvo Joel Santos — EXPLORE & WANDER

In the Wild, We Belong

Blue eyes, Sadhu, Holy man, Jaipur, India_photo by Joel Santos_ BANNER.jpg — INTO THE EYES

One world, Infinite gazes

001_Miner working surrounded by sulphur fumes and gases, Kawah Ijen Volcano , Java island, Indonesia_(2014)_photo by Joel Santos_.jpg — SULPHUR MINERS

Harvesting Hell at Kawah Ijen Volcano

MAD HONEY HUNTERS

Himalayan hallucinogenic nectar

ROCK-HEWN CHURCHES

ethiopia - abune yemata and lalibela

OMO VALLEY TRIBES

ethiopia - body art and scarification

NOMAD HUNTERS

Eagle Hunters and the Tsaatan

Fuego and Acatenango Volcano, Guatemala. Photo by Joel Santos_003.jpg — VOLCANOES

Earth Forged in Flame

SVALBARD & PYRAMIDEN

Artic’s Wildlife and ghost coal mines

SOUTH SUDAN

Mundari - ash-covered bodies & long-horned cattle

Vila Franca do Campo, São Miguel, Azores, Portugal.jpg — FROM THE SKY

Aerial photographs

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featured videos

A cinematic journey tracing Joel Santos’s global TV documentary filmmaking — from erupting volcanoes to vanishing cultures and remote landscapes, from the edges of civilization.

Embark on a visual odyssey with Joel Santos, whose documentary lens captures the raw pulse of Your Planet. A showreel about the unmatched beauty of Earth’s remote frontiers.

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