Juan Cristóbal
San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España
1969, Madrid. At the end of the 80’s he starts to practice photography with his father’s Kodak Instamatic. There’s something in this art that attracts him. He begins his learning as an autodidact and, by the start of the new century, he carries out his first exhibition. His education as a photographer starts in the School of Arts and Crafts Fernando Estevez in the capital city of Tenerife, Santa Cruz. In 2003 he participates in the International Biennial Exhibition Fotonoviembre Isla de Tenerife with a work named “El Mar como Escultor”. He attends various photography workshops organized by the photographer Oscar Molina with the collaboration of artists of the standing of Daniel Canogar, Bernand Plossu and Oscar Molina himself. He takes part in a collective exhibition under the name of “Así fue” in the Mapfre Foundation. He will exhibit more works in Santa Cruz of Tenerife and La Laguna, such as “El Sur”, “Olvido, rastros y abandonos” and “Intimidad”. He collaborates with the school Fernando Estévez, which includes one of his works in a travelling art exhibition throughout the island. His works deal with objects, landscape, documentary and abstract photography.