Fernando Paramio Alamillo
– Artist page –
Fernando Paramio was born in Barcelona 1977. Shortly after he moved to Cáceres, where he discovered his passion for photography at the age of 13, being nature and snapshots his first subjects of interest.
At the age of 15 he had to move to Madrid and in his journey to creative photography soon became interested in multiple exposure and zoom burst, techniques that helped him to win his first photography competitions, already in college time.
In that same period, his interest in perfecting the image quality led him to acquire a medium format camera with which, despite his weight, he fell in love with photography more deeply, not only for its impressive image quality but for its absence of automatisms, what made the shooting a more premeditated, elaborated and artisanal act.
At the end of his university studies he deepened his photography knowledge through study photography and digital retouching courses, keys for his later development.
After fifteen years working and living in different cities and countries, he decided to return to his almost natal Cáceres, to focus his activity on artistic photography.
Currently the author develops his work faithful to his beginnings: photography as a means of expression to bring credibility to his imaginary scenes, consisting of photomontages, with a self-sufficient aesthetic, obsessed with image quality, and by means of a meticulous process both in the photo shoot and in the digital editing.
The outside world, the experiences that we live and our own peculiarities shape our inner universe, which, reciprocally, determines how we perceive the information from outside.
The realism that photography brings to my ideas is what attracts me the most. It provides instant veracity to my imagined situations.
My artistic photography is nourished of any element, and although my ideas sometimes arise in any situation, I promote them by finding the right place and time to think about what I want to create. Generally, all my ideas are related to nature, culture social issues and psychology.
The creation process that I follow is technically complex, including the shooting of the elements that compose the artworks, and their editing to make them work cooperatively with the others to tell a story.
- 2018/10 – Honorable Mention – International
Fhotography Awards 2018 – Category: Professional – Section: Advertisement “Tourism and travel” – Artwork: “Intercontinental Jump” - September 2018: preselected – International competition “Caminos de Hierro” 29 edition (149 preselected photographs amongst a total of 3697 from 62 countries) – Artwork: “The traveller’s dream”. Selected in digital format for travelling exhibition.
- 2018/05 – Bronze – Moscow international Foto Awards 2018 – Category: Professional – Section: Advertisement “Tourism and travel” – Artwork: “Intercontinental Jump”
- 2018/04 – Nomination – Fine Art Photography Awards 2018, 4th edition – Category: Professional – Section: Photomanipulation – Artwork: “Intercontinental Jump”
- 2018/02 – Artwork accepted – Maitland International Salon of Photography, Australia (509 participants and 4495 images) – Section: color prints – Artwork: “Intercontinental Jump”
- 2018/01 – Honorable Mention (Blue Ribbon
Helenic Photographic Society) – International Photography Competition “Photo Art Prague” (directed by PhotoArt Magazine; 608 participants nd 2732 photographs) – Section “Nature” – Photograph “Ready for a fight” – published in exhibition book. - 2017/12 – Honorable Mention – International Photography
competetition “Chromatic Awards” (over 3000 imáges, 75 countries) – Professional category “Fine Art” – Artwork “A colorful balcony of feathers”. - 2017/12 – First finalist (2nd place) – International competition of Industrial photography organized by Galician Association of Industrial Engineers – Photograph “Infinity gallery”. Two other submitted photographs are exhibited during the prize-giving ceremony and they are displayed in the competition online gallery (“Recompensa al
esfuerzo ” & “Ingeniería dedetalle ” https://concursofotografia.icoiig.es/album-del-iii-concurso-de-fotografia/) - 2000 – Artwork accepted – National photography competition organized by Skoda
- 2000 – Second place – First national photography competition organized by Hagen Dazën – Photograph published in the magazine “Arte Fotográfico” (nº 558)
- 1999 – Consolation prize – National photography competition organized by Mars chocolates
- 1999 – First place – Complutense University of Madrid photography competition “Happening”
Artworks
Critics
Rosa Perales – Simbiosis entre lo imaginado y lo deseado
- PENDING TRANSLATION - El arte de fotografiar es, en la actualidad, uno de los métodos más activos para expresar emociones, cada fotógrafo recorre un camino personal que sostiene su propia manera de asumir la fotografía como arte, además de técnica. Como arte libre...
Miguel Campón – Zoografías
- PENDING TRANSLATION - Tras regresar a España de una estancia de cinco años en Australia, Fernando Paramio crea la serie de fotografías Visiones de otro continente. En ella, a través cuidados fotomontajes digitales, traslada la fauna y la flora del país de Oceanía...
Elvira Rilova – Lo desconocido está en la otra esquina
- PENDING TRANSLATION - El arte está repleto de artificios capaces de acercarnos a una nueva percepción ya que la constante construcción creativa es un alegato per se en favor de la ficción, un acto donde la metáfora y los símbolos están precisamente muy alejados de...
Better ambiances
Improved sensations
Greater comfort
Greater prestige
Social Commitment: small gestures for a great change