Oskar Alvarado (born in Vitoria-Gasteiz) works and lives in Barcelona, Spain. In his widely award-winning series Insomnia, Alvarado explores his personal experiences with sleep disorder. The images build in a dreamlike world while disturbing at the same time. The fragments of life were staged at night, in the complexity of the night lighting of the city or the apparent calm of anonymous rooms.
His photographic work has been exhibited at the Instituto Cervantes in Belgrade (Serbia), The National Museum of Finland, Fotonoviembre Atlántica Colectivas (Spain), Photo Is:rael (Israel), Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cáceres (Spain), Verzasca Foto Festival (Switzerland), Addis Foto Fest (Ethiopia), Solar Foto Festival (Brazil), BFoto Festival (Spain), Angkor Photo Festival or Voies Off Awards (France) among others. At the same time, his work has been recognized in awards such as Sarajevo Photography Festival, Kolga Tbilisi Photo Award, Gomma Photography Grant, Photometria International Photography Festival, The Prefix Prize, Photo Collective Stories, Lucie Foundation Fine Art Scholarship, Life Framer Photography Award, Helsinki Photo Festival, Restart Lithuanian Photographers Association and many more.