Departamento: History of Art

Centro académico: Faculty of Fine Arts

Universidad: University of Murcia

Area: History of Art

Research group: Art, Power and Gender

Email: casillas@um.es

Personal web: https://webs.um.es/casillas/miwiki/doku.php

Blog: https://vazquezcasillas.org/

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Doctor by the Universidad de Murcia with the thesis La fotografía a finales del Siglo XX en Murcia. 1975-1999 2004. Supervised by Dr. María Manzanera.

Doctor by the Universidad de Murcia with the thesis La muerte de Victor Hugo ordenación y análisis crítico reflexivo de las fuentes gráfico documentales y plásticas dedicadas a la defunción, velatorio y funeral público del poeta 2021. Supervised by Dr. Noelia García Pérez, Dr. Jesús Segura Cabañero.

He holds PhDs in Art History and Fine Arts from the University of Murcia. A photographer, art critic, and exhibition curator, he is Associate Professor in the Department of Art History and Cultural Coordinator at the University of Murcia. Between 2002 and 2007, he was a member of the production team of the photography festival *Fotoencuentros*. From 2007 to 2010, he directed the Historical Photographic Centre of the Region of Murcia (CEHIFORM). Since 2008, he has directed the Photographic Research Laboratory within the Department of Art History. Between 2018 and 2022, he served as editor-in-chief of the scholarly journal *Imafronte*. From 2020 to 2025, he was Vice-Dean for Culture at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Murcia, and since 2021 he has directed the *Foto-Historias* series, a book collection published by edit.um–Ediciones UMU, as well as the Knowledge Transfer Group for Visual Arts and Heritage. Throughout his career, his research has focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century photography, as well as on the recovery, study, and preservation of photographic archives. Since 1993, he has developed a wide range of photographic projects and exhibitions. Since 2010, he has devoted himself exclusively to a long-term photographic project centred on nature and death. From a global and critical perspective, his work explores the human being’s “ethical” relationship with the environment, addressing, among other issues, the subjugation, disregard, and abuse inflicted upon the living beings with whom humans share the planet. Through diverse visual approaches, he constructs perspectives that foreground these concerns.

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