Juan Cristóbal Newberry Retana (known professionally as Christopher Cristóbal Newberry) is a photographic artist and author born and raised in Mexico City. Born on 15.11.51, Newberry grew up fascinated by symmetry, a trait he playfully attributes to his palindromic birthdate....
Read MoreJuan Cristóbal Newberry Retana (known professionally as Christopher Cristóbal Newberry) is a photographic artist and author born and raised in Mexico City. Born on 15.11.51, Newberry grew up fascinated by symmetry, a trait he playfully attributes to his palindromic birthdate. After studying Communication Science at the Universidad Iberoamericana, he came to England for the adventure of it – and stayed. He spent several years directing documentaries and cultural television programming for both Mexican and British networks before transitioning into freelance photography, writing and design.
He is best known for creating bold, colourful, and highly symmetrical modern art derived from manipulated photography to explore themes of reality and perception. He describes his current style as “verisimilar art” where he uses light captured from real-world objects, architectural features, and landscapes, and then uses digital manipulation to warp reality into either heightened, impossibly perfect symmetrical images or complete geometric abstractions, thus transforming realistic photos into physically impossible, perfectly symmetrical graphic abstractions to explore the concept of a “post-truth” world.
His distinctive palette of vibrant, intense colours is heavily influenced by his Mexican heritage.
His fine art photography has been exhibited internationally in Mexico and Romania, and also the length and breadth of England, including solo exhibitions such as “Transitions” in Chichester and “True Colours” in Halifax.
