Promising young people are usually only once, but this is the second time that Kito Muñoz (Chiclana de la Frontera, Cádiz, 1997) appears in a portfolio of new talents in this magazine. The first was in the fall of 2015, she was 17 years old and we had to ask her parents for permission. Now we are in 2021, Kito has established himself as a photographer with his own firm and is only 23 years old.
“You tell me and it makes my hair stand on end,” he jokes when we ask him to remember these years. “Since I was little I have liked creating things at home,” he recalls. “I spent the day making videos stop motion with the toys, he made the dolls pretty. And when I was in high school, the idea of studying for a degree scared me a lot. I was so scared that I thought the only way out was to get to work hard. I opened Instagram and set myself the challenge of doing a different project each week. I wanted to make a living from the photo, but I didn’t even have a camera! ”
It was then that he met Filip Custic – a Latin Grammy Award-winning artist for Best Packaging Design for The bad want de Rosalía–, with whom he worked for years. “That was very important. We joined forces and we had a great time, ”he explains. Then came the media, the opportunities, and the talented friends.
For Palomo Spain and Mans he has photographed campaigns of a sophisticated and almost tactile eroticism. “I am inspired by homoerotic photography, the new masculinity.” Lately his aesthetics have been freed from coldness. Your cover for the new issue of the magazine Dust it is also a male nude, but in another form. “It has been an important project. The key is in the models, in talking with them and that they understand my idea. I have realized that psychological dimension ”.
The self-portrait on this page looks like a selfie, but there is much more, such as a three-dimensional background and a scenery so intricate that it goes unnoticed. “I spend a lot of time thinking about the concept, fitting each image into my world. I am excited to take a photo and that the viewer does not know if it is true or illusion. Technique only interests me insofar as it helps me achieve what I want. My thing is the impossible photos ”.
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