Santiago Carralero Benitez  (Málaga- Spain, 1962), founder of  Iniciativa YURTA Project, studied fine arts in the Fine Arts Universities in Tenerife and  Valencia, focusing his early works of art on commissioned portraits. Between 1986 and 2006, he gets a batchelor degree in History in Madrid to study later Anthropology, specializing in the peoples living on the fringes of traditional history: the nomadic peoples. In this time he travels to more than 30 countries in four continents, carrying out research among the gypsies of India, the Yaghan community of Tierra de Fuego, the Yuqui tribe in Amazonas basin, the Callawaya group in bolivian plateau, the Kung! San of Kalahari desert, the Khampa of East Tibet, the Ewenki of northeast China, the Gaine in Nepal, etc. In 2008 he publish "Wandering Souls: A Travel to Past from the present-day India" (in spanish), about the different castes belonging to the Gypsy stock in India. After this time of travels and studies, he decides to take again the brushes after 20 years without pictorial production, but this time to reflect the nomadic way of life, joining  his two passions: painting and nomads.
    More than an artist, he defines himself as an artisan, far of the contemporary abstract painters and more related with the masters of Renaissance and Impressionism. In the field of artistic innovation he wants to retrieve the abstract concepts derived from figurative painting, using a formal plastic language to shake the imagination of public.
He thinks that the present situation of art depends too much of investors and large marketing campaigns where the painter need not prove their ability in front of the public, because who decides is not the public. For him painting art is in danger to become just a market value.
    His painting is slow, using the "thin layer over layer" old techich of dutch, spanish and italian masters, whom he admires and respect as artists and artisans.
As an artisan to the service of nomads, as he likes to describe himself, his purpose is to show to Nomads and Indigenous People like classical models, people able to be protagonist for their own, proud of their origins and their own culture, in their natural environments, with their rights to live there and giving example of an alternative way of understanding the relationship between human beings and nature.
Dignyfing the figure of nomads by art he wants to contribute, through the Iniciativa YURTA project, to raise awareness about what model of world we want for us and our descendants.

Como artista de óleo y acuarela, ha evolucionado desde un temprana vocación centrada en el arte del retrato por encargo hacia una fuerte tendencia que pone los pinceles al servicio de los nómadas, reflejando no sólo a los protagonistas, ya sean gitanos, pastores o cazadores-recolectores, sino también su ambiente y la luz limpia y rotunda que envuelve sus vidas cotidianas. 
En su arte, realista y perfeccionista, el autor trata de ofrecer una imagen cercana de los nómadas y, como dice él, "elevarlos a la dignidad de modelos clásicos, para que en vez de figurar en frecuentes imágenes costumbristas, como algo anécdotico de una faceta de la vida en una región, remota aparezcan como personas reales, con nombres y apellidos, claramente reconocibles, dignos de los mismos derechos y sujetos a las mismas necesidades que cualquier otra persona".

桑逖（Santi）于1962年出生于西班牙的马拉加，先后在特纳利夫岛与巴伦西亚的艺术学院进行学习。之后他致力于美术创作。此后，他在马德里攻读了历 史学位，并着力于研究世界范围内的游牧民族以及其古老传统。他在欧洲通阅史籍，并亲身游历了四大洲的30多个国家。辍笔20年之后，他又拾起画笔，用艺术 的笔触记录下游牧的灵魂，将游牧的生活方式跃然纸上，让更多人接触到这种看似遥远的文化，但这文化并不陌生，它与每个人息息相关，全世界将认识到游牧文明 的重要性，游牧的族群将得到世人的再次认识与尊重，以千万年流传的生活方式迁徙在草原上，保护着全世界的生态屏障。桑逖希望更多的人能换个角度，为人与自 然的关系重新定位、重新思考。
桑逖已经在世界多国居住并举办艺术展。目前他已在中国成都成功举办展览，中国成为他最重要的发展领域之一。

Сантьяго Карралеро бенитез была рождена в 1962 в прибрежном городе Малаги, в южной Испании, но его первые шаги в изучении живописи имели место в Университете Искусств в Тенерифе и после Валенсии. Его начальные работы сосредотачивается главным образом на портреты, большая часть их сделанный в нефти. Вдоль времени и согласно его интересу в исследовании кочевников, который принес ему, чтобы посещать более чем 30 стран в четырех континентах, его работа, начатая, чтобы отражать кочевой путь жизни, но не обычным путем, но окрашивающий кочевников подобно королям, классическим моделям, люди способными быть главными героями для их собственный. он жил и начинал его карьеру в Испании, Франции, Шотландии и Китае.