"Cycles" is a series of self-portraits that alludes to the four cycles of human life through floral cycles as a visual metaphor.
The series illustrates flowers' circular shapes mirroring life's cycles. Each stage represented in photos invites viewers to reflect on personal growth and blooming.
It is a testament to the beauty and transience of life, exploring identity, consciousness, and femininity. It challenges the viewer to look inward and find their own reason for being, their own apex of cycles, and their own internal strength that motivates them to make sense of their own existence.
Diana Rubi is a fine art photographer and visual artist born in Cuba and currently living in the USA. She uses photo manipulation to create surreal scenarios that talk about emotions and dreams, as well as real and fictional stories, using mostly her body as a container of characters that embody these stories.
Her work presents visual poetry, which seeks to shape the thought, human fragility and its nature through surreal representations that are often an open question that makes you look more than once.
Awards 2023
Platinum Winner in Fine Art Photography - Portrait, Muse Photography Awards: "Victim"
Platinum Winner in People Photography - Surreal, Muse Photography Awards: "Limits" (Series)
2022
Gold Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA): "Limits" (Series)
Bronze Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA): "Very Peri"
Honorable Mention Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA): "Lux Colorum"
Honorable Mention Winner Prix de la Photographie Paris (PX3): "Rooms of Mind" (Series)
Silver Winner in Photomanipulation, Muse Photography Awards: "Rooms of Mind" (Series)
Third Prize Winner in Photomanipulation, 8th Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA): "Rooms of Mind" (Series)
Nominee in Conceptual, 8th Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA): "Last Cup"
Nominee in Photomanipulation, 8th Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA): "The Exit"
2021
Honorable Mention Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA): "Last Cup"
Honorable Mention International Photography Awards (IPA): "The Exit"
Bronze Winner Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA): "Tempus"
Honorable Mention Moscow International Foto Awards (MIFA): "Laundress", "Gardener", "Lady Lindy"
2020
Silver Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA): "Tempus", "Laundress"
Bronze Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA): "Own Sky"
Honorable Mention Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA): "Mirror-Window", "A Head Full of Dreams", "Juliet", "Lady Lindy"
Nominee, 7th Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA): "A Head Full of Dreams", "Black Sylphide", "Intuition", "Juliet", "Lady Lindy", "Laundress", "Mirror-Window", "Tempus", "Vision"
2019
Bronze Winner Tokyo International Foto Awards (TIFA): "Boreas"
Nominee, 6th Fine Art Photography Awards (FAPA): "Boreas", "Green Mother", "Sunflowers & Madness"
