My name is Antonio Romero, I was born in Granada (Spain), in a small mountain village.
My passion for the hidden reality that narrates us our invisible nature, it dates back to my teenage years, when I first observed, through a petrographic microscope, a thin slice of sedimentary rock. I was captivated by the beauty and knowledge that image contained, and felt that I wanted to retain it in my memory with the help of a photograph.
In my early work, the shots were used to illustrate research papers and similar publications, mainly in Spain. Some years later, my images started to become more creative and they illustrated covers of international publications: magazines, academic journals, and others.
The different themes matured in the last ten years, have given as fruit the creative production I now collected in my website. The iconography contained in them summarizes my impressions and expressions of our microcosm, unknown but very close, which always I had the inner need to share.
Coal is a complex substance—but at its core, it is a product of the natural world. This series of microcosmic abstractions pays homage to its remarkable composition.
