Conceptual nominee

As a Fine Art Photographer, for me it's very important to create images with a deep message. I usually focus on an specific theme, sensation and story for every picture. The inspiration comes from different moments of my life or someone else's.
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This particular series of self-portraits is built around the thoughts, images and sensations ocurring in our minds. However, they don't represent just dreams and the feelings they generate, but also different phases of my life in the last year. Every picture represents the main emotions I have experimented since the pandemy started and its influence over me and my beloved ones. At least, the last year has felt like a huge nightmare full of conflicting emotions.

I'm a self-taught photographer and visual artist from Gran Canaria. I felt passionate about art since I was a child, especially painting. I started oil painting at the age of eight and had to replace brushes with a camera because of studies.
As a teenager, I discovered self-portraiture, which became a form of therapy, an escape from years of bullying. I used self-portraiture to capture my emotions and vent my anxiety, anguish and fear. My connection to photography was no longer just a hobby.

I continue using self-portraiture to express my own feelings and as a form of activism.
My work, characterised by pictorial and conceptual self-portraits, mixes photography and digital editing. In most of my pictures, I reflect on realities from a critical point of view: environmental care, gender violence, the visibility of diseases (endometriosis, anxiety, depression, breast cancer, etc.).
I started exhibiting in 2016 and my work has been shown in more than fifteen photographic exhibitions and events.
I was gold and silver winner in the 'MUSE Photography Awards 2022' and won special mention in the seventh edition of the 'Fine Art Photography Awards'. My photographs have been the cover of two books and a CD.