Diego Orlando

Diego Orlando

Fine art photographer | Visual artist | Pictorialist


Statement


I'm Diego Orlando and I seek the light in a world of shadows

[…] I do think these images are indeed powerful, pleasing and thought provoking and of excellent quality. Hence, I was more than delighted to place them in the Quay Street Gallery.Denis Taylor - Curator, artist and writer

As a photographer, I seek light in a world of shadows.I pursue capturing the essence behind the veils of reality. Inspired by the drama of the Baroque and the intensity of the Pre-Raphaelites, I evoke the mysticism of past eras through the contemporary lens.In the theater of the ephemeral, I recreate scenarios that reveal secrets of the soul.My portraits, like living paintings, delve into the ineffable through the gaze. Freezing a moment in time, I wish to transport the viewer beyond the mundane.With each photograph, I aim to elevate the everyday and highlight the beauty hidden in details.Through the theatrics of light and composition, I imprint emotion onto the fleeting.Thus, year after year, I continue pursuing the light that hides in the shadows, hoping to share my unique vision with those who seek to transcend through art.


Photo awards


2018

International Photography Awards™ —IPA 2018—
Winner in Fine Art - Professional Category

International Photography Awards™ —IPA 2018—
Winner in Book - Professional Category


2020

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


2021

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

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


2022

International Photography Awards™ —IPA 2022—
Honorable Mention in Fine Art Portrait - Professional Category

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

International Photography Awards™ —IPA 2022— Official Selection in Fine Art, Portrait - Professional Category

Diego Orlando

Tokio International Foto Awards™ —TIFA 2022— Official Selection in Fine Art, Other - Professional Category

Diego Orlando TIFA 2022

Tokio International Foto Awards™ —TIFA 2022— Honorable Mention in Fine Art, Other - Professional Category

Diego Orlando TIFA 2022

2023

VOGUE - PhotoVogue Italia
January, 16 - Best of PhotoVogue - with Blue Night.

International Photography Awards™ —IPA 2023— Official Selection with the artwork "Harmony in the Countryside: Grandma's Beloved Farm" in Nature, Animals & Pets - Professional Category

International Photography Awards™ —IPA 2023—
Honorable Mention in Nature, Animals & Pets - Professional Category


2024

Beautiful Bizarre —Art Prize 2024— Photography Award Finalists with the artwork "Eminence in Shadows: A Baroque Reverie"
The winners for the Photography Award will be announced on September 17, 2024. For those interested, public voting for the Catherine K. Gyllerstrom People’s Choice Award opens on August 23, 2024. More info


Exhibitions


Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) - Los Angeles - CA - EEUU

SOONOctober, 2024
Participation in the Inaugural Exhibition "LACDA Reboot and Reunion", organized by the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA). This event marks a new beginning for the gallery, which reopens its doors at a new location at 410 South Spring Street, Los Angeles, after a long period of inactivity due to the pandemic.
The exhibition will take place from October 3 to 26, 2024, and will feature a selection of works representing the best in digital art and contemporary photography. My participation in this show includes a series of large-format pieces that explore the fusion of technology and visual art, a theme that has been central to my recent work.
This event not only celebrates the reactivation of LACDA but also offers a platform to showcase how technology continues to transform contemporary art. Throughout the exhibition, the public will be able to see how digital processes influence image creation and how they can be used to challenge traditional art conventions.The exhibition is an opportunity for visitors to explore the complexities and possibilities of digital art in a context that promotes innovation and experimentation. I am proud to be part of this event and to contribute to the ongoing dialogue about the impact of technology on art.For more information about the exhibition and my participation, you can visit LACDA

J70 - San Sebastian - Spain

NOWApril - Sept, 2024In San Sebastián, my hometown, I present a solo exhibition that captures my artistic journey. This city, known for its beauty, cultural richness, and gastronomy, is the ideal stage for my most recent works.From April to June, my works will be exhibited at J70, Miguel Imaz K., 6, bajo Izda, 20002 Donostia-San Sebastián. This space, passionate about contemporary art, interior design, and decoration, offers a unique environment where art merges with design.The exhibition is an invitation to dive into a world where the emotions, colors, and textures of each piece weave unique stories, inviting you on a sensory journey through beauty and visual narrative. I look forward to having your presence at J70 to share and explore together this intertwining of gazes, sensations, and meanings.

ImageNation - Paris

May 24 - 26, 2024In immortal Paris, where the first glimmers of photography kissed time, I am preparing to join my voice to the symphony of lights and shadows that will resonate once more in its historic streets. This May, I have the privilege of intertwining my vision with that of other international photographers, each narrating stories without words, but brimming with emotions, thoughts, and revelations.From May 24th to 26th, my work will find sanctuary in the noble heart of Paris, at GALERIE JOSEPH LE PALAIS. This place is not just a space, but the threshold to a timeless dialogue with art, a bridge stretched between the yesterday and tomorrow of photography.I invite every wandering soul, every free spirit, and every dreamy heart to dive with us into this poetic meeting of gazes and lights. It will be a visual odyssey that promises to take us along unexplored paths of beauty and emotion, woven into the canvas of our collective humanity.The gallery is located at 5 RUE SAINT-MERRI, PARIS. For more information, please visit the event's website.

ICONIC photo show - Milan

Sep 22 - 24, 2023The prestigious platform Collater.al presents a new edition of its ICONIC photographic exhibition in Milan, curated by Martin Vegas and ImageNation. This event gathers prominent international contemporary photographers and is a must-see for photography enthusiasts.Under the concept of "suspended universe", ICONIC explores the line between reality and imagination in photography. The selected works play with the viewer's perception, immersing them in dreamlike universes emerging from the dialogue between photographer and observer. ICONIC 2023 is an inspiring exhibition reflecting on photography from a fresh perspective. It is an unmissable event for discovering the latest contemporary photography trends.

2BIENALBLACK - Brasil

Jan 13th, 2022Organised 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, 2021Organised by British Art Exhibitions, painters TUBES magazine and Tubes Artists Gallery (TAG). United Kingdom.

London Art BIENNALE

Jun 30 - jul 4, 2021Curated 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, 2020Windows into the virtual
Millepiani - Rome - Italy.

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

Dec 12, 2019 - Jan 4, 2020Los Angeles - CA - EEUU

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art

Sep 12 - Oct 5, 2019Los Angeles - CA - EEUU

The Littel Project

November, 2016Toneelhuis Program. Digital platform Invisible Cities.


Publications


METAPHOR[E] Magazine

February, 2024The Lord Of Light: Diego Orlando written by Carlos Mundy.

His artistic creation is faithful and loyal to his personal non-conformism, which has marked his whole life, a permanent struggle between beings who seek from anonymity to set no limits to their way of being and loving between men and women, far from religious, sexual, racial or ideological conventions.

Click here to read the article.

ICONIC Magazine

September, 2023Photo selected by Iconic editors (EDITORS' PICK) for standing out from the rest.

SATCHI ART

February 27, 2023Saatchi Art's chief curator and art advisor Rebecca Wilson selected the photograph "Freedom" as one of Saatchiart.com's best works of the week.This is what they wrote on their instagram account about my work:

Diego Orlando strikes a balance of poetry, magic, and beauty in the quasi-dreamlike characters and scenes he captures.

Influenced by Spanish and Italian Baroque masters, Diego explores light, shadow, and classical subject matter that feels familiar yet surreal.
@saarchiart

Click here to read Discover new art our curators love every week (in English).

DODHO Magazine

November 4, 2021Dodho magazine publishes the report "My photographic vocation is born from the tireless search for “the light” that is capable of illuminating a personal world full of shadows". Click here to read the entire article (in English).

Diario Vasco - Spain

October 19, 2021El Diario Vasco (San Sebastián, Spain) publishes the report that Mitxel Ezquiaga made about my work: «Baroque portraits of pandemic». Click here to read the entire article (in Spanish).

Vanitas Creative Culture

October 3, 2021Vanitas Creative Culture (Madrid, Spain) published the article «El señor de la luz / Lord of the light» written by Carlos Mundy in which he shows a series of photographs that I have taken during this year. Click here to read the entire article (in Spanish).

El Diario Vasco - Spain

November 9, 2020El Diario Vasco (San Sebastián, Spain) publishes the report that Mitxel Ezquiaga made about my work: «Photography is for me a pictorial art, not a reflection of reality». Click here to read the entire article (in Spanish).

Cultura Inquieta

November 7, 2020Cultura Inquieta magazine publishes the article «The San Sebastian photographer Diego Orlando finds light in a world of shadows». Read the full article (in Spanish) here.

El Diario Vasco - Spain

September 15, 2019El Diario Vasco (San Sebastián, Spain) publishes the report that Begoña del Teso made about my work: «I escape from this city, I come back, I hate it-I love it and I leave to long for it». Click here to read the entire article (in Spanish).

El Punt Avui - Spain

November 11, 2018El Punt Avui newspaper (Girona, Spain) publishes the report by Jordi Camps I Linnell: «Les ombres d’Orlando». Click here to read the full article (in Catalan).

Diari de Girona - Spain

November 6, 2018Albert Soler publishes in Diari de Girona (Girona, Spain) the interview he did with me: «In Europe it seems that at 50 we are finished». Read the full interview (in Catalan) here.

El Español - Spain

October 9, 2018The digital newspaper El Español (Madrid, España) published the article: «Diego Orlando, winner of one of the international IPA photography awards». Read the entire article (in Spanish) here.

El Diario Vasco - Spain

October 8, 2018El Diario Vasco (San Sebastian, Spain) publishes the review: «Diego Orlando, awarded for his series 'La Mirada de Goya'» for the first place that I obtained at the International Photography Awards (IPA) in the Fine Art and Books categories. Read the entire article (in Spanish) here.


Artworks


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Diego Orlando

Biography


Diego Orlando is a highly accomplished interior architect and master of creative photography from San Sebastian, Basque Country, Spain.He received his Master's degree in creative photography from the University of Catalonia, and has since established himself as a leading figure in the art world.In 2018, Diego won the International Photography Awards (IPA) for his artistic work "La mirada de Goya". This photographic series, produced over a two-year period in different settings in the Province of Girona, depicted the subjugation of Spanish women to the strict religion of the 19th century. The series won two prizes, one in the category of fine arts and the other in books.Since 2018, Diego has been producing the series "Saints and
Mantillas", in which he shows a contemporary view of the life of
martyrs and virgins of Christian culture. In 2020, he won another IPA "Honourable Mention" for his series "Malleus Meleficarum" in the fine arts category.
In 2021, Diego was nominated for the International Fine Art Awards -FAPA- and also participated in two exhibitions: Manchester 2020 VR Exhibition and London Art Biennale. He was also selected to present his artwork at Florence Art Biennale. In October 2021, the International Photography Awards (IPA®) awarded him an honorable mention in the professional category of Fine Art Portrait for the series "Half lights, half shadows".Diego's work has been exhibited in prestigious venues such as the Los Angeles Museum of Photography, the Millepiani Gallery in Rome, and the London Art Biennale. His art reflects the masterpieces of pictorialist photography, painting and illustration, with influences from artists such as Robert Demachy, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Francisco de Goya, and Annie Leibovitz.In 2022, Diego was a nominee for the Fine Art Photography Awards
-FAPA- in the Portrait - Professional Category and also an official
selection in International Photography Awards™ - IPA 2022 in Fine Art, Portrait - Professional Category. Also, he was selected as Official Selection and received Honorable Mention in Tokio International Foto Awards™ - TIFA 2022 in Fine Art, Other - Professional Category.
Currently, Diego splits his time between Caracas, San Sebastian and Barcelona. He continues to be recognized for his work, receiving accolades such as the "Pic of the Day" and "Best of PhotoVogue" from VOGUE - PhotoVogue Italia. In 2023 he was selected for London Art BIENNALE and considered as "The second most important curated Art Biennale after Venice" by Lonnie Schlein - Pulitzer Prize winner.


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