José Ney Milá Espinosa, of Cuban nationality, was born in Havana on March 4, 1959. He is a self-taught photographer, recognized in documentary photography and author photography since the mid-1980s. Initially trained as a cartoonist, artist craftsman, civil designer and finally abandoned his career in architecture for photography. He received several awards in his country in drawing, painting, applied arts and photography, but his greatest achievements were from the beginning of the 90s, in international photography salons, achieving numerous awards and distinctions throughout his career.
His images have been presented in more than 80 collective and individual exhibitions around the world. In spaces like The Florida Museum of Photographic Arts, Tampa; Southeast Museum of Photography Daytona; Latino Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Richmond Hall/The Menil Collections, Houston; Downey Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Museum of Fine Arts of Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; INAH Photo Library, Pachuca, Mexico; Quirquincho Tambo Museum, La Paz. Bolivian; Museum of Huelva. Spain; Humor Museum, San Antonio de los Baños and National Museum of Fine Arts of Havana, Cuba; Photographic Archive Toscano, Italy; Photo library of Cuba; VI and VII International Biennial of Art (SIART 09 and SIART 11) and Editions Tristán Barbarà, Barcelona, Spain among other spaces in America and Europe.
Part of his works were selected in catalogs and books such as IPA Book 2019. International Photography Awards. USA; Monochrome Awards Annual Book – 2018 International Black & White Photography Contest. USA; Under the Cuban Sun. Throckmorton, 2016. USA; ¨We the most unfaithful: critical narratives about Cuban art (1993 - 2005) Spain 2008; Memoirs: Cuban plastic arts of the 20th century. California, 2004; ¨100 years of Cuban photography. 1998, Madrid; Fotofest´94. Contemporary Photography from the Island, 1980 to the Present” Houston, 1994; "Cuban Photography, 1959-1992" Berlin, 1993 and "Critical approach to current Latin American photography" Spain, 1991 among others.
For his most recent works, he has been awarded #1 (The 10 Best Mobile Photographers) and #5 (The 10 Best Black and White Photographers) in the United States, awarded by One Eyeland 2021. As well as other Honorable Mentions in that same year in the category of Fine Art, as in the International Photography Awards, IPA. USA and Moscow International Photo Awards. Russia. In 2020 at the Budapest International Photo Awards....
