Eight Seconds, Sunrise

Self-taught. Red Dot Miami 2025. Marbella Art Fair 2026.

A camera at fifteen.
He never put it down.

His father handed him his first professional camera at fifteen. Today, eleven works are in private collections. He has shown at Red Dot Miami 2025 and with Monat in Marbella and Madrid. Explore his selected works, from studies of light and landscape to the Bodywork series.

Eight Seconds, Sunrise

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Interior visualization. Scale and materials are illustrative.

Daniel Montero

Selected works

Land, water and the intervals of light. 90 works from the studio, with private acquisition enquiries.

The Green Line

Four hundred millimetres

Distance flattens everything.

At 400mm, miles of air compress into four flat bands — weather, water, tree line, water. Nothing is arranged. The lens simply removes the space between things.

Interior visualization. Scale and materials are illustrative.

Shoreline, 05:46

05:46

Before anyone else is up.

Four seconds of open shutter at f/45, stopped down until dawn light behaves like dusk. Held that long, the tide stops being water and becomes a surface.

Interior visualization. Scale and materials are illustrative.

The Silence Between the Tides

Daniel Montero

The Silence Between The Tides

An empty boat holds the centre of a nearly colourless expanse. Its weathered boards and dark reflection give the eye something to hold on to as the horizon disappears. Along the lower edge, stones bring the view back to shore.

The Silence Between the Tides

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Interior visualization. Scale and materials are illustrative.

2015 Self-taught, age fifteen

2025 Shown at Red Dot Miami during Miami Art Week

2026 Marbella Art Fair, with Monat

2026 La Vita è Bella: Contemporary Visions, Monat Gallery, Madrid

2026 Eleven works in private collections

2026 First Light, the opening collection

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Eleven works are in private collections. The Circle is for the next few — private previews before each collection opens, a direct line to the gallery, and an artist-signed certificate of authenticity with every acquisition.

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