Animals city (2024) Photography by Oriol Jolonch

Oriol Jolonch is a digital artist and photographer whose love for capturing invented realities goes back to a very young age, when he inherited from his father an old airbrush with which he made his first experiments, small squares that served to illustrate the covers of old cassettes and some posters that he keeps with great affection in a corner of his house and especially in his memory.

He always kept a direct contact with photography, but it was only when it entered the digital age that it seduced him definitively, which led him irremediably to the passion to create. other worlds, other realities seemingly invented but somehow real. These works are essentially the figment of the imagination, some of them having been carefully thought out and studied and having a long history behind them. Others, on the other hand, are like small flashes of lucidity that assail us from time to time and which he then tries to capture as still images, with no other pretension than to make people stop a few moments in front of the image to observe it with a little more attention and, if they wish, ask themselves questions or imagine the story that could be hidden behind each scenario by reinterpreting reality. In short, to lead the spectator to confuse reality and fiction.

Oriol Jolonch was born on February 23, 1973 in Barcelona and although he studied design and photography, he considers himself a self-taught artist by vocation. He has won numerous awards: 1st Fundació Vila Casas Photography Prize in 2014, 1st FEP Prize for European Professional Photographer of the Year 2011, Gold Medal in the category of Illustrative Photography (Gold Award FEP European - Professional Photographer of the year 201)...His work has also been the subject of numerous publications.

• Nationality: SPAIN
• Date of birth : 1973
• Artistic domains: Works by professional artists,
• Groups: Professional Artist Contemporary Spanish Artists

The Artist was highlighted in an article in ArtMajeur Magazine:

Oriol Jolonch, the current of Surrealism