ARTIST BIO
Aldara Ortega is a Madrid-born fine art underwater photographer based in Miami. Since 2010 she has built an internationally exhibited body of work spanning solo and group exhibitions across the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Canada. Her work is held in private collections across the United States, Latin America, and Europe.
Ortega trained as a fashion designer at the Fashion Design Superior Center in Madrid before relocating to New York City, where her practice as a visual artist began. Her camera is the medium. Water is the vehicle. The human experience is her subject. She treats each photograph the way a painter treats a canvas, working section by section, building color, shadow, and light with meticulous precision. The surface reflection visible in most of her images is her signature, a consistent visual element where light doubles and transforms everything it touches.
Ortega holds SSI Freediving and PADI Freediving certifications, both pursued to deepen her underwater photography practice, as well as a PADI Scuba Diving certification. Three years ago she relocated from New York to Miami by deliberate choice, specifically for proximity to the ocean and the bodies of water that make this work possible.
Aldara Ortega is a Madrid-born fine art underwater photographer based in Miami. Since 2010 she has built an internationally exhibited body of work spanning solo and group exhibitions across the United States, Latin America, the Middle East, and Canada. Her work is held in private collections across the United States, Latin America, and Europe.
Ortega trained as a fashion designer at the Fashion Design Superior Center in Madrid before relocating to New York City, where her practice as a visual artist began. Her camera is the medium. Water is the vehicle. The human experience is her subject. She treats each photograph the way a painter treats a canvas, working section by section, building color, shadow, and light with meticulous precision. The surface reflection visible in most of her images is her signature, a consistent visual element where light doubles and transforms everything it touches.
Ortega holds SSI Freediving and PADI Freediving certifications, both pursued to deepen her underwater photography practice, as well as a PADI Scuba Diving certification. Three years ago she relocated from New York to Miami by deliberate choice, specifically for proximity to the ocean and the bodies of water that make this work possible.
