Shot from
the street

I'm Eli Espiritu — a San Diego-based street photographer. I carry a camera everywhere, because that's the only way to catch what the city actually looks like: unposed, unlit, and unaware.

My work is about the in-between — the alley behind the building, the person waiting at the corner, the wall that's half-covered in paint and half-covered in time. I'm drawn to urban spaces the way other people are drawn to nature: for the wildness in them.

I shoot documentary and commercial work and I'm always open to projects that put me somewhere I haven't been yet. The street is the studio. Everything else is just logistics.