ENTRY DESCRIPTION
I am fascinated by the contradictions that define us as people. I focus on this in an almost primitive way, representing human needs, fears, passions and desires. He shows the love and desire needed to perpetuate the species, symbolized by the female body.
The images speak of war and of the hunt, but also the duality that exists deep within, which allows us to commit the most selfless or vile acts: good and bad (light and darkness), life and death (mortality and immortality).
It also gives us a glimpse into those aspects that are so intimately connected to us that any attempt at eliminating them would result in the destruction of the human race as we know it.

AUTHOR
Antonio Peinado is a Spanish photographer, born in the summer of 1963 in Andújar in Andalucía. He lived there until he settled down in Pamplona in 1981. He has always felt drawn to photography. When Antonio was 15, he began to read and teach himself about photography, developing a passion for the art form as he learned.

He is a Photographer with a passion for this art form. It’s this passion, in combination with Antonio's exacting perfectionism which drives him to explore new ways of expressing himself.

FEPFI Master Photographer, in recent years Antonio has received recognition in a variety of countries for his work. Most recently being FIAP Gold Medal in 5th Print Salon Varna, Face and Body, (October 2019), Gold Medal in Moscow International Foto Awards 2018, category Fine Art (Moscow, Russian Federation. May 2018); Outstanding Achievement Winner in The Black & White Spider Awards, XII Edition, category: Nude. (Beverly Hills, October 2017); First Prize Winner in the 1st Monovisions Photography Awards, category: Nude (London, August 2017); First Prize Winner in the 3rd Fine Art Photography Awards, category: Nude (London, April 2017) and receiving the distinction QEP, one of the most prestigious international acknowledgements given by the FEP, and the Best Spanish Photographer of the Year in Illustrative Art award given by the FEPFI in 2016.

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