"If there are those who think that Photography should capture the instant, I believe it should capture the atmosphere, the ambiance, the sensation that surrounds that instant", states Diego Orlando Machimbarrena while exhibiting at the Center for Digital Arts in Los Angeles. The winner of the Latin edition of the IPA awards in the Fine Arts category redefines his approach as "technopictorialist", fusing his love for classical masters such as Goya, Zuloaga, Ingres, and Caravaggio with the possibilities of modern technology.

Orlando criticizes the contemporary technical obsession: "Today, any photographic device can give you a quality that approaches or exceeds 56 billion pixels. The question that some of us ask ourselves is what more can we add to that supreme quality. Supreme but so tremendous, flat, very flat". Like the pioneers of photography who "turned back to painting", he resorts to "technology, high technology, that of the present and future" which enables him "to manipulate backgrounds, subvert spaces, reproduce the past". His connection with San Sebastian is complex and poetic: "It's me, martyred and glorified by this city that I love, hate, and always remember. From which I escape and to which I return to leave again and always miss it", a relationship reflected in self-portraits where he appears "with the city in the background, ghostly, among bluish mists" and his "head split over a crown of thorns". While continuing his series on Goya and preparing a new one titled "Tears of Penance," his work is exhibited in Los Angeles and soon in Hong Kong.