Lázaro Louzao - Plata Nº5

Original work from the series 'A Idade dos Metais' by Lázaro Louzao. Displayed at the Black Box Gallery in 2022, with press coverage of the opening. Title: Plata Nº5. Printed on photographic paper. Edition 1/5. Signed on the back by the artist. Also includes a certificate of authenticity and the exhibition catalog magazine.

Lázaro Louzao (Xove, 1988) has spent more than 15 years working in the field of artistic photography, with eighteen solo exhibitions to date. His work has been shown in venues such as the Ethnographic Museum of Ribadavia, the Diversidarte Festival, the Black Box Gallery, the Casa-Museo Casares Quiroga, the Espacio en Blanco in Santander, or the Studio RGF in Madrid. He has also participated in various group shows inside and outside the Spanish state.

He also ventured into cinema in 2013 as director, producer, and screenwriter, making three short films up to 2015, selected in a dozen festivals around the world. His first feature film, Nove de Novembro (2018), the first LGBT-themed film shot in Galician, toured the world in more than twenty festivals and was shown in commercial cinemas and on screens throughout Galicia. The film received the Best Feature-Length Galician Award at the Lugo Author’s Cinema Week and a special mention from the jury at the Uruguayan festival Llámale H. Nove de Novembro is currently available on Filmin.

In 2020 he received the XVI Marcela y Elisa Prize for LGBT visibility for his work, and after a hiatus due to COVID, during 2022 he carried out five solo exhibitions and published Palpar a Pel, a book collecting his photographic work of male nudes, with a foreword by Abel Azcona and an afterword by the collective Los Picoletos.

In 2024 he returns to cinema with his short Volver Cantando, Best Short Film at the Roca Film Festival. His latest photographic series, Obumbratio, was presented at Madrid’s Studio RGF gallery and published as his second photobook in 2025.