Jose Quintanilla

After attending the School of Technical Architecture, he studied Art Direction at the CEV in Madrid. For over 20 years, he worked in marketing and advertising, gaining extensive experience in photography, image editing, and graphic arts. In 2007, he opened Taller Digigráfico in Madrid, a laboratory specializing in signature photography, where he works for artists such as Pablo Genovés, Bleda y Rosa, Gonzalo Puch, David Jiménez, and others. He is a member of the prestigious global network of laboratories certified by Hahnemühle. He holds a Master's degree in Photography from the PHotoEspaña 20/21 program. Artistic theory and projects. Self-taught as a photographer, he has attended numerous workshops with photographers and artists. He also carries out important teaching activities, giving courses and workshops at festivals and photography schools such as EFTI, Máster PHotoESPAÑA and La Máquina. His work as an author focuses on landscape photography understood as the relationship between man and the territory that surrounds him, in constant dialogue with nature. INDIVIDUAL EXHIBITIONS 2021 "Memorabilia. The invented memory" Faro de Cabo Mayor Art Center, Santander. PhotoEspaña Festival 20212019“The Time Contemplated” La Aurora Gallery, Murcia2018“Between Roots and Absences” Ramón J. Sender Foundation – UNED, Barbastro (Huesca) BFOTO 18 Emerging Photography Festival2017 “Transcurso” Bea Villamarín Gallery, Gijón“My House, My Tree” La Asunción Hall, Albacete Provincial Council2016 “My House, My Tree” College of Spain in Paris, France.2015 Bea Villamarin Gallery, Gijón“My House, My Tree” CEART Fuenlabrada, Madrid.2014“My House, My Tree” Villa de Móstoles Cultural Center, Madrid. GROUP EXHIBITIONS2022“Holocaust” curated by Jesús Reina, Cobertura Photo Gallery, Seville.“Just LX Lisbon”. DDR Art Gallery. Lisbon, Portugal.2021Special Mention PhotoEspaña at the ENAIRE Foundation Awards. Villanueva Pavilion of the Royal Botanical Garden of Madrid. Photo España 2021.“My House”, Espacio Mados - Álvaro Alcázar Gallery, Madrid“Goodbye 2020 – RARO”, Autores en Red Gallery, San Lorenzo de El Escorial2020“Imagined Herbaria”, Complutense Art Center, Madrid“Heterogeneous Sculpture”, Faculty of Fine Arts, UCAM, Madrid2019“Transmutation” RARO Group, AVAM Extension, Matadero, MadridPhotoEspaña 19, ENAIRE Foundation Awards, Botanical Garden of Madrid“The Full and the Empty”, The 451 Shop, Oviedo, Asturias“Large Size Minimum” House of Culture, San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid2018“Communicating Thread” RARO Group, Espacio Primavera 9 Gallery, MadridChristmas Collective, Railowsky Bookstore, Valencia2017 “Rare World” B&B Gallery, MadridOviedo Art Fair, Bea Villamarín Gallery, Gijón“The Happy Corner” Barjola Museum, Gijón, curated by Natalia Alonso“Infinite Interior” ENAIRE Foundation Award, Cervantes Institute, Madrid2016 12th Biennial of Plastic Arts, City of Albacete, Municipal Museum, AlbaceteASISA International Photography Competition, Casa de Vacas, Madrid Mundo, La Vaguada Cultural Center, Madrid2015 Estampa Contemporary Art Fair, Matadero, Madrid“Possible Landscapes” Espacio Foto Gallery, Madrid.2013XXX Exhibition “Gil Marraco” Photography Competition. Casa de los Morlanes. Zaragoza.2013“Emerging Art Competition” La Galería Roja, SevilleAWARDS2021Special Mention PHotoESPAÑA, XIV ENAIRE Foundation Photography Award2019XII ENAIRE Foundation Photography Award (Selected) 2017X ENAIRE Foundation Photography Award (Selected) 2016First Prize XVIII Prize for Plastic Arts of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce in France2016 Selected in the XII Biennial of Plastic Arts of the City of Albacete2015 Second Prize ASISA International Photography Competition (Asisafoto 2015)2013 First Prize XXX National Photography Competition “Joaquín Gil Marraco” for the series “My house, my tree”, Zaragoza City Council.WORKS IN COLLECTIONSAlbacete Provincial CouncilCollege of Spain in ParisASISA CollectionYecla City Council, MurciaAutonomous Community of the Region of MurciaRamón J. Sender Foundation – UNED, Barbastro (Huesca)Private collections