Santa Spilberga studied photography at Joshibi University of Art and Design in Tokyo, Japan (supported by Japanese Government (Monbukagakusho) scholarship 2007-2008), she attended Photography workshop by Andrejs Grants (2009) and participated in Summer school of Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design (London) and International Summer School of Photography (Latvia). Santa has worked as a photographer at Tokyo Voluntary Action Center in Japan, at magazine „Idealistas” (Buenos Aires, Argentina) and at foundation „Let’s help.lv”. Her works has been published in magazines „Fotokvartals”, „Idealistas”(Argentina) and in newspapers „Day”, „Japan Today”, „Japan Times”.