Diego Orlando Art

Pro Type: Photographer

Basque by birth and citizen of the world by conviction, I am going through an artistic period of dispersed and disturbing aesthetics. I gave myself to pictorial photography to find the light in a world of shadows.
In my work I look for balance, poetry, magic and beauty in quasi dreamlike characters and situations. A labyrinth full of lights and nuances that emerge from my incessant work, a creative rain that acts as a balm for my troubled spirit.
A war without quarter against the mercantilist interests of the art world, an unequal battle that helps me to maintain the last bastion of creative freedom: that of being able to portray only that which moves my soul.
A personal struggle not to be dragged down by the undertow of the media, fashions and avant-gardes that hypnotise part of the population and most of the critics. A battle to remain loyal to my artistic universe.
The study of the classics, the fascination for baroque perfection, painting and sculpture, the Italian and Spanish schools of the golden century, the chiaroscuro, the exacerbated delicacy of the romantic writers and painters of the 19th century, all influence my photography.
Freedom, religion, diversity, Faith, love are present in my work with images wrapped in allegories or metaphors that the viewer will have to interpret.
The construction of millions of pixels around an instant is not in my objective, because of the previous photographic processes and the post production.
The scenic art, the composition, the current editing techniques, lead me to a constant search for light, in a personal world full of doubts and shadows.
A detailed and meticulous work make up my photographic series, works that have taken me more than two years in the smallest of cases.
The study of each image as artistic and unique pieces, of very limited edition.
Series conceived as a unit, faithful to an idea, a concept and an aesthetic, several of them awarded and that only seek: "to satisfy the restlessness of the author to find a meeting point between the new technologies and the classic world".

AWARDS
2018
International Photography Awards™ —IPA—
Winner in Fine Art & Book - Professional Categories

2020
International Photography Awards™ —IPA—
Honorable Mention in Fine Art - Professional Category

2021
Fine Art Photography Awards —FAPA—
Nominee in Fine Art - Professional Category

International Photography Awards™ —IPA—
Honorable Mention in Fine Art Portrait - Professional Category

VOGUE - PhotoVogue Italia
November, 8 - Pic of the Day & Best of PhotoVogue - with Mother Earth.

2022
Fine Art Photography Awards —FAPA—
Nominee in Portrait - Professional Category

EXHIBITIONS
2BIENALBLACK - Brasil - OPEN NOW
Jan 13th, 2022
Check out the selected photos here.
Organised by Black Brazil Art (BBA) and selected by a jury that included a representative of Itaú Cultural (IC), the Brazilian Association of Art Critics (ABCA), the International Association of Women's Museums - IAWM (representing Canada) and the Association of Art Museum Curators of New York - AAMC.

The MANCHESTER 2020 VR Exhibition
Jun 20 - jul 20, 2021
Organised by British Art Exhibitions, painters TUBES magazine and Tubes Artists Gallery (TAG). United Kingdom.

London Art BIENNALE
Jun 30 - jul 4, 2021
Curated by international museum and gallery professionals. The Biennale took place on the King’s Road, Chelsea, known as the true artistic centre of London.

“The second most important curated Art Biennale after Venice”
Lonnie Schlein - Pulitzer Prize winner

LOOSENART - Millepiani
Feb 5 - Mar 4, 2020
Windows into the virtual
Millepiani - Rome - Italy.

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
Sep 12 - Oct 5, 2019
Dec 13, 2018 - Jan 15, 2019
Los Angeles - CA - EEUU

The Littel Project
November, 2016
Toneelhuis Program. Digital platform Invisible Cities.