Armando Valdés Planas is an actor, producer, casting director and "photographer" from Cuba. He was trained by the Cuban Writers and Artists National Union in Theory and Workshop Acting Course. He is also a host and scriptwriter for radio, television and live shows. He worked as an actor in two fiction films and several short films and docu-dramas in Havana. He was one of the producer of the Toront
o Hispano-American Film Festival since 2005 and finishing his first documentary. Discover the art of photography in Old Havana, through the Community Project Art Prado (Image 3) led by Cuban artist Cecilio Aviles and sponsored by the UNEAC, collaborating with photographer Ariel Arias in his artistic production. (2005)
Shortly thereafter, exposing a photographic miscellany on urban issues in the Gallery - Studio El Ojo del Ciclón property of renowned artist Leo D 'Lazarus in Old Havana (2007 - 2013), giving its first signs of his empirical talent. Considered himself a "perpetual attempt to show reality through images and not a professional photographer" he presents his series called Cat's Family at Ottawa Public Library (main branch) in March 2014 and the same series in the event FILLAB et Espace Fusionel Inc in Joliette, Montreal, Canada in November 2014. Fascinated by the images that manages to immortalize from living nature especially animals; He says about this series:
"With the Cat's Family Series I pay tribute to the sensitive and capricious Cats arouse feelings of tenderness, protection and companionship in some people, like me ...
One day I kept looking at my cats basking in the courtyard of the house. This was a sublime invitation to take pictures, to see them felt a certain reference to "Chiaroscuro", a pictorial technique of the Baroque period, which had its peak in the Italian painter Caravaggio "
Currently he is a member with the Premium category and curator at the website "ViewBug" one of the most famous and prestigious for their online competitions in which he has won 231 awards from other members of the global community of photographers. Their pictures are in private collections and public institutions such as: House of Commons of Canada (Canadian Parliament) and ESL - LINC (Language School) for newly arrived foreigners in Ottawa, Canada. Armando is preparing his next project commemorating the 150th anniversary of the creation of the Confederation of Canada with an exhibition dedicated to the city of Ottawa to be held in 2017.
