Diego Orlando receives the "Honorary Award" at the IPA 2020 awards for Malleus Meleficarum (Hammer of the Witches), a series that represents "the power of angels and martyrs over sin, desire, attraction, and death". This work, developed over three years, confirms the position of the San Sebastian photographer as an innovator who protests against current photographic conventions.

His work reflects a "strong pictorial influence from the Baroque and the Spanish and Italian Golden Age", presenting "a vision of a new Baroque" where he uses "photographic lighting techniques to create the chiaroscuro technique, in addition to a long and detailed process of scenography and editing". The "flou effect" and "mannerism" that characterize his photographs function as "a form of protest against current academic photographic purism", creating images that are "precious, baroque, with a profusion of details, full of allegories and labyrinths hidden in their shadows, fabrics, and textures". The series, composed of 30 photographs taken in Catalonia and Donostia (of which seven received recognition in the United States), will soon be exhibited in La Provence (France) and Detroit. This work follows his award-winning series "La mirada de Goya," which received two first prizes at the IPA 2018, consolidating his trajectory as creator of a unique visual language that integrates tradition and contemporaneity.