ENTRY DESCRIPTION
An imaginary animal emerging from the plant kingdom. I use the mirror image of the floor of a forest, to display a face animal created by the leaves, poking his face through the branches.

AUTHOR
Jose R. Laiño was born in Caracas, Venezuela. Since 1982 he live in Spain, native country of his parents where he obtained spanish citizenship. He studied architecture and worked for ten years for a national and international architectural offices, making projects, models, photography, photocollages and 3D models of buildings and industrial design in many competitions winning projects. In these years, his interest in photography was rising, using analog cameras with macro lens to photograph architectural and conceptual models, although his interest in photography comes from many years ago. He has also worked in painting from a very early age, getting the award New Values in Pontevedra Biennial 1991, Spain. He has studied and practiced airbrushing and airbrushing on photography at the Center for the Study of Video and Image in Santiago de Compostela obtaining outstanding rating in his final work diploma.

Since 2009 he excited for digital photography, digital edition and digital manipulation, especially in still life category, self-taught learning and using photography as a means to express ideas in a creative way.
In 2013 Jose Laiño presents his recent photographic work to contests for the first time.

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