San Sebastian photographer Diego Orlando, aptly nicknamed "The Lord of Light", develops work that comes from "the tireless search for light capable of illuminating a personal world full of shadows". His photographic vocation emerges from a journey that is "complicated, introspective, passionate, and poetic" that fuses various Fine Arts disciplines to interpret his most intimate universe.

His artistic work rejects the cult of technical capability of millions of megapixels. On the contrary, the "flou effect" and "mannerism" that permeate his photographs represent "a form of protest against current academic photographic purism". Since 2018, Orlando has been working on the series "Santos y Mantillas" (Saints and Mantillas), where he offers "a contemporary vision of the lives of martyrs and virgins from Christian culture". This artistic creation reflects his personal nonconformity and a "permanent struggle between beings who seek from anonymity not to limit their way of being and loving, far from religious, sexual, racial, or ideological conventions". With his photographs, the artist seeks "the light that emanates from a new generation that fights to be true to itself."