Bio

José Ney Mila Espinosa, of Cuban-American nationality, was born in Havana on March 4, 1959. He is a self-taught photographer, recognized within documentary and author photography since the mid-80s in Cuba. He previously trained as a draftsman, craftsman/artist and civil construction designer and finally, abandoning his architectural career, devoting himself fully to photography in 1988. Since 1989 he worked as a press photographer, then as a freelance photographer and finally as a photographer for the Fototeca de Cuba until he emigrated in 1995. From 1995 to 2010 he lived in Spain as a freelance photojournalist based mainly at the newspaper Heraldo de Soria and collaterally with other publications in Navarra and Madrid, in addition to his darkroom services and the sale of laboratory chemicals of his invention, protected by the Spanish Patent and Trademark Office in Barcelona. In 2010 he settled in the United States, in central Florida where he dedicates himself to photography of Latin social events and conceptual photography related to migrations. To date, his works have participated in more than a hundred exhibitions in specialized spaces around the world and received international awards and distinctions in similar circumstances. In 2023 his works have been selected by the jury of Larnaca International Biennale. Larnaca, Chipre; The International Biennale of Contemporary Sacred Art. Menton. Francia and VI Valencia Biennial CVO. Valencia. Spain. (International Call for digital projection) He was a member of the International Selection Committee of the XI International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Florence, 2017 and XII International Biennale of Contemporary Art in Florence, 2019 invited by its organizers, Italy. Selected by the juries of the "VI International Art Biennial SIART 09" 2009 and "VII International Art Biennial SIART 2011". La Paz, Bolivia. Guest artist at the Fotofest 94 (International Biennial of Photography) “The New Generation: Contemporary Cuba Photography from the Island, 1980 to the present” Fotofest 1994. Houston, EE.UU. and the Biennial ¨Photographic Spring 98¨ (Tristan Barbará Gallery) Barcelona 1998, Spain.