"My photographic vocation was born from the tireless search for 'the light' capable of illuminating a personal world full of shadows", declares Diego Orlando in this profound artistic manifesto. The San Sebastian photographer defines his work as "a complicated, introspective, passionate, and poetic journey" that fuses various Fine Arts disciplines to interpret his most intimate universe.

Orlando explicitly rejects the cult of technical sharpness: "My work is not born nor presented with the objective of reflecting the skill in execution of which I may be capable, nor for the capacity of sharpness that technique offers today, with millions of megapixels at our service". Instead, the "flou effect" that bathes his photographs functions as "a form of protest against current analog academic purism". His experience in interior architecture and antiques brings him closer to the pictorialist photographic movement of the 19th century, to Caravaggio's "chiaroscuro," to the light of Venezuelan master Armando Reverón, and to cinematographic references from Bertolucci and Visconti. He creates "exclusive photographs limited by their print run and size", works that are "precious or baroque with a profusion of details, full of hidden allegories and labyrinths concealed in their shadows, fabrics, and textures", incorporating "the most current digital and pictorial techniques" in the editing and final composition of the images.