Diego Moreno
San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. Mexico. 1992. Visual artist specialized in photography and narrative, lives between Mexico and Switzerland. His work approaches photography as the main tool to create new realities and intertwines with other disciplines such as text, drawing, painting. He explores themes of identity such as religion, violence, affection and the complexity of family and cultural ties in his context. He considers photography as a possibility of narrative control, which is why he has specialized mostly in the creation of photobooks.
He has been named as one of the most influential young photographers in the world by The British Journal Of Photography UK; Creative Review UK and FOAM MAGAZINE Netherlands. He has received various awards around the world, such as: the POY LATAM Latin American Photography Award in three categories in 2025 and 2019 in Quito, Ecuador; the UNSTUCK 2022 Award in Toronto, Canada, awarded by the Magenta Foundation; FOAM TALENT 2022 in Amsterdam; iPhone Photography Awards 2021 in New York; LensCulture Art Awards 2021 in Amsterdam; Cheerz Photo Festival 2019 in Paris, France; International Image Award 2019 in Mexico; LensCulture Emerging Talent Award 2018 in Amsterdam; and the Acquisition Award at the 10th Puebla de los Ángeles Biennial 2015 in Mexico.
He has been named as one of the most influential young photographers in the world by The British Journal Of Photography UK; Creative Review UK and FOAM MAGAZINE Netherlands. He has received various awards around the world, such as: the POY LATAM Latin American Photography Award in three categories in 2025 and 2019 in Quito, Ecuador; the UNSTUCK 2022 Award in Toronto, Canada, awarded by the Magenta Foundation; FOAM TALENT 2022 in Amsterdam; iPhone Photography Awards 2021 in New York; LensCulture Art Awards 2021 in Amsterdam; Cheerz Photo Festival 2019 in Paris, France; International Image Award 2019 in Mexico; LensCulture Emerging Talent Award 2018 in Amsterdam; and the Acquisition Award at the 10th Puebla de los Ángeles Biennial 2015 in Mexico.
Malign Influences
It is a graphic intervention project on my family photographic archive. Through the manual use of coloured pencils, graphite, Indian ink, markers, oil or materials such as bleach or vinegar, I use photographs as a way of creating new realities invented from my obsession and fascination with the anomalous. Inspired by the apocalyptic vision of the Catholic Church I served for twelve years as a child and raised in a highly religious environment, I grew up disturbed by who I was because of my sexual orientatio
My identity was veiled by the prejudices and guilt that religious doctrines bestow on you. Throughout my life, the symbol of the monstrous and the abnormal was the only image I could empathise with because of the rejection. Malign Influences allows me to construct an alternate world without guilt, paying homage to the family album, one of the main fictional artefacts in our lives that generates our identity over time. This project is starred by the beings that inhabit my head, who neither hide nor are silent, they show themselves in all their monstrosity. They speak with multiple voices claiming their difference. Thus, with their ungrammatical language, we refuse to be condemned to silence.
My identity was veiled by the prejudices and guilt that religious doctrines bestow on you. Throughout my life, the symbol of the monstrous and the abnormal was the only image I could empathise with because of the rejection. Malign Influences allows me to construct an alternate world without guilt, paying homage to the family album, one of the main fictional artefacts in our lives that generates our identity over time. This project is starred by the beings that inhabit my head, who neither hide nor are silent, they show themselves in all their monstrosity. They speak with multiple voices claiming their difference. Thus, with their ungrammatical language, we refuse to be condemned to silence.
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