San Sebastian photographer Diego Orlando, winner of the IPA 2020 Honorable Mention for Malleus Meleficarum and nominee for the Fine Art Photography Awards 2021, is now preparing his participation in important international events. After exhibiting at the Los Angeles Photography Museum and the Millepiani Gallery (Rome), Orlando is set to show his work at the Florence Art Biennial (October 2021), the London Art Biennial (June-July 2021), and the innovative Manchester VR Exhibition (June-July 2021).

His artistic work, characterized by the "flou effect" and "mannerism," represents "a form of protest against current academic photographic purism." Orlando creates "precious, baroque photographs, with a profusion of details, full of allegories and labyrinths hidden in their shadows, fabrics, and textures" that arise from "the tireless search for light capable of illuminating a personal world full of shadows". His artistic creation reflects his personal nonconformity: "a permanent struggle between beings who seek from anonymity not to place limits on their way of being and loving between men and women, far from religious, sexual, racial, or ideological conventions". As the author of the article concludes: "Diego Orlando is, without a doubt, a Lord of LIGHT!"