Karen Santos

Karen Santos

Photographer & Art Director

Karen Santos is a first generation Peruvian-American Photographer and Art Director based in Oakland, CA. A background in performing arts and art history fuels her process, deeply inspired by emotion, movement, and storytelling. Much of her curiosity about an individual's human experience and emotionality drew her to portrait photography, establishing her photo studio in the Bay Area, with frequent commissions and travels to LA and New York.

Although much of her clientele consists of Broadway performers and emerging TV/Film stars, her colorful work has also been sought out by all kinds of creative professionals and artists, publications and organizations, as well as social and executive leaders. Check out more of her work here.