Rocio Villanueva is an Italian-Guatemalan photographer and artist, residing in Guatemala City. From a very early age, artistic expressions have been engraved in her consciousness, through drawing, painting, photography and art appreciation with the help of her great-uncle, who introduced her casually into this world. Rocio is self-taught, for the last 7 years she has created surreal conceptual works. She mainly uses digital photography as her canvas and intervention with Photoshop as the tool for her creations. Her creative process begins beyond the computer. She begins with sketches on paper that take shape through elements, time, places and characters. Her images represent parallel and dreamlike worlds that come to life through the play of light and shadow, color and textures that create a different vision of non-existent places that resemble a painting more than a photograph. She has participated in group exhibitions in the cities of Guatemala, Barcelona, Vienna, New York, Rome, Miami and Palm Beach and individual exhibitions in Guatemala City.