Biography

Cristóbal Carretero Cassinello. Ferrol. (La Coruña) 1976.

Almerian by adoption, professor of economics, expert instructor in financial Excel, graphic designer, web designer and photographer. Diploma in Business Studies from UAL 2005 and Bachelor of Business Administration and Management (ADE) from UMH in 2019. He has worked for more than a decade as a graphic designer and creative director in prestigious advertising agencies in Almería, developing advertising campaigns for European level for big brands and designing newspapers like La Voz de Almería. Parallel to his design work, he carries out extensive teaching work as a professor of economics and as a teacher of specialist courses in financial Excel, aimed at both companies and workers at training centers and at the Almería Chamber of Commerce.

Currently, he combines teaching and design with the development of conceptual photographic projects by the author with great national and international recognition.

In 2017 he was selected for Photoespaña Discoveries 2017, his photographs have been published in prestigious international photographic competitions such as the Magnum Photography Awards 2017 (USA) of the MAGMUN PHOTOS Agency, Chromatic Awards 2017 (USA), Lensculture Street Photography Awards 2017 (USA ), LensCulture Emerging Talent Awards 2017 (USA), Lensculture Street Photography Awards 2018 (USA), LensCulture Exposure Awards 2018 (USA), LensCulture Art Photography Awards 2019 (USA), Lensculture Street Photography Awards 2020 (USA) and Lensculture Critics' Choice 2020 (USA).

He has been a finalist in the 4TH Fine Art Photography Awards 2017 (USA), International Photography Grant 2017 (UK), International Photography Of The Year 2017 (USA), 5TH Fine Art Photography Awards 2018 (USA), III Certamen Signo Editores 2018. Madrid (Spain), Chromatic Awards 2018 (USA), Chromatic Awards 2019 (USA) and Los Angeles CineFest (USA).

His photographs appear in photography books such as the World Street Photography 5 Book-WSP5 2017 (USA), Progressive Magazine 5 Book 2018. Interview. (USA), Chromatic Awards Book 2019 (USA), Catalog: ‘Dialogues’. Excma. Diputación de Almería 2019, Street Life Year Book 2019 (Germany), Minimal Zine Issue Nº1. 2019. Barcelona (Spain) and outstanding magazines such as Musée Magazine 2017 (USA), Float Photo Magazine 2017 (USA), Eyeshot Street Photography 2019 (Italy), Photographize Magazine Issues (nº40 - 2018, nº41 - 2018, nº42 -2019 and Special Edition Deluxe -2019). New York (USA), The Inspired Eye, Nº83.- 2020. Interview. (USA) and NocSensei. New Old Camera 2020. Milan (Italy).

It has been on the cover of the award-winning American Street Photography Magazine. (USA) in March 2019 and has publications in The Best of VOGUE. 2020. Vogue- Italy. He has also published his work in important specialized photography media and cultural magazines in Spain such as Xataka Photo 2020. Madrid (Spain), Cultura Inquieta. 2020. Madrid (Spain) and LF Magazine 2020. Madrid (Spain).

Highlights publications in written press such as La Voz de Almería in the years 2017-2019 (Spain), Diario de Almería 2019 (Spain), La Vanguardia 2019 (Spain), EL Ideal 2019 (Spain) and Spokesperson Diario 2020. Chiapas (Mexico) . Likewise, her work can be seen in the online editions of VOGUE (Italy) and National Geographic (USA) magazines.

Her photographic work has been exhibited and viewed in cities such as Almería at the Andalusian Photography Center. (CAF). 2017 and Excma. Diputación de Almería 2019. Individual exhibition, Dialogues, in Alicante at PhotoAlicante 2017 and PhotoAlicante 2020, in Barcelona at Revela-T 2017, in Ontario (Canada) at Hassan Law Community Gallery 2017, in Vancouver (Canada) at Capture Photography Festival 2017, in Miami (USA) at Artbasel 2017,, Hamburg (Germany) at Gudberg Nerger Publishing & Gallery 2018, in Calcutta (India) at Academia de Bellas Artes de Calcutta 2018, in Voronezh (Russia) at! Provfoto Russian Photo Collective 2018, in Romania at F64 Studio- Spot On Street Exhibition 2018, in Porto (Portugal) at Centro Portugués de la Fotografía 2018. (CPF), in Madrid at the Villa de Móstoles Cultural Center 2019, in Los Angeles (USA) in Los Angeles Cinefest 2019,, in London (UK) at PhotoLondon 2019, in Trieste (Italy) at El Monasterio di Santa María in Valle 2019, in Montevideo (Uruguay) at Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo de Uruguay 2019 and in New York. (Manhattan) at the New york Art Center 2020.

He has recently been selected for PHOTOESPAÑA DESCUBRIMIENTOS 2020 and belongs to the jury of the Royal Photographic Society of Madrid.

Statement

As an author I use photography for the development of conceptual based projects applying a melting pot of photographic styles; street photography, minimalist and conceptual that combine to tell evocative stories about the relationship and interaction of man with the environment and his vital existence.

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