Open Theme nominee

The photography explores the theme of war from a humanist perspective, focusing on the suffering and vulnerability of people caught up in conflict. The title ‘Stop the War’ is an urgent call for peace, emphasising the need to end violence and destruction. The image uses classical painting techniques, such as chiaroscuro, to highlight the contrast between light and shadow. This approach not only adds drama to the image, but also symbolises the struggle between hope and despair. The photograph shows a figure wrapped in a translucent veil tinged with red, a visual metaphor for the consequences of war.

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I'm Diego Orlando and I seek the light in a world of shadows.
orn in San Sebastian, Spain, pictorialist photographer.

My photographic vocation is born from the tireless search for the light capable of illuminating a personal world full of shadows. A complicated, introspective, passionate and poetic journey from which I feed to interpret my most intimate universe. A path that goes hand in hand and in communion with several disciplines of Fine Arts.

My art work is not born or presented with the aim of reflecting the technical capacity currently offered by millions of megapixels. On the contrary, the "flou effect" and "mannerism" that bathe part of my photographs is a form of protest against the current academic photographic purism.
The purpose of my work is to investigate and incorporate new technologies to the traditional way of doing photography in order to create a work of art with its own identity and language. Precious, baroque photographs, with a profusion of details, full of allegories and labyrinths hidden in their shadows, fabrics and textures.
University Master of Creative Photography in Catalonia 2016-2018.