Photomanipulation nominee

This is a work based on the rebirth after surviving to a long disease. I got inspired by my mum, as she is a breast cancer survivor. As Fefi Martín Suárez (my mother) wrote in her book Un pulso con la muerte (An arm-wrestling with death):

"You don't know your own strength
until it rises up in a matter of life and death,
in an arm-wrestling with her, an arm-wrestling with death".

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.