Was born in León and lived in Madrid from the age of 11. His first images date from the late 1970s. He established himself professionally as a photographer and held his first solo exhibitions in Madrid and London in the 1980s. He gained acclaim at the first edition of PhotoEspaña (1998), and was awarded the National Photography Prize in 1999. He began to work with both photographic and video images at the beginning of the 21st century, exhibiting in some of Spain and Europe's principal galleries and museums, such as the Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, the Photographer's Gallery in London, the Prado Museum, and the Maison Europée de la Photographie in Paris.