Diego Ballestrasse

Diego Ballestrasse

living in Spain – visit artist website

Diego Ballestrasse (Buenos Aires, 1974). Trained in architecture at the University of Buenos Aires, he studied photography at the EASD SerraiAbella and the Centro de Fotografía Documental in Barcelona. In parallel he has attended workshops with Stephen Shore, Martin Parr, Joan Fontcuberta and Jason Fulford.

In his documentary projects, he addresses the scenographic possibilities of the architectural space: Set (2009), Montseny (2011) and NYC (2011), and through portraits investigates issues such as artificiality, decontextualization and pose: Models (2010). Currently investigates through photography and video, about multiples temporalities of the image in relation to the mechanism of the photographic event.

Twice finalist at Descubrimientos PhotoEspaña, in 2016 with the series The fourth wall and in 2009 with the series Set, in 2014 received a grant from the Centro de Fotografía Documental in Barcelona. His works have been exhibited at different art spaces in Spain and Argentina.