In a world with no troubles by Ángel Castillo Perona

It took Ángel Castillo Perona almost ten years to find a satisfying visual language that combines his passion for this medium with Impressionist painting. Thanks to the technique of multiple exposures in the camera (and without relying on software manipulations), he was able to create a kind of photographic art that mimics the impressionist effect of the paintings.

"I consider myself an urban person. I was born in Madrid and the city has always been the environment where I liked living", said Ángel Castillo Perona. Therefore, the streets of any city or village are the focus of his photography. It's difficult to define the genre of Perona's photos, but he thinks it reflects the essence of street photography. What special here is, people are not the focus, but rather the urban or natural elements that are part of the ‘furniture’ of any city: a building, a fountain, a lamppost, a carrousel, a tree, etc.

His work portrays those elements of the city that catch his eyes and that he transform directly in his camera, romanticizing the setting that he observes and turning them into an idea or impression of it. Ángel does not capture a single moment, as a single photo would, but a set of few moments that go on one after the other. Eventually, those layers of moments become just one, creating a dimension of that scene by registering different angles of the urban element as well as capturing the movement, light, color, and people who could pass by at that time.

There is a lot of reality in these pictures, although it appears transformed in the eyes of any viewer. His work depicts a world with no troubles, full of relaxed radiance and glowing colors and light, providing an intriguing perspective that blurs the line between photography and impressionist oil painting.