Lives and works in Madrid. This Spanish photographer, studied Art History at the Universidad Complutense in Madrid (1980-1983) at the same time as he was studying photography in the Centro de Enseñanza de la Imagen, also in Madrid. In 1985 he gave his first individual exhibition at the Real Sociedad Fotográfica de Madrid, although in the early 1990s when Chema Madoz suffered a creative crisis, he changed the concept of his photographs. He now uses surrealism as a reference, and is no longer interested in taking photos of what he sees, or the implication of chance in his work, but rather, using defined mental images – conceptually the work is resolved before it is begun – he creates the objects he wishes to photograph. By modifying the simple everyday object, he bestows a poetical sense on it, similar to the process of Joan Brossa with his objectpoems, thus creating unusual images with a force that characterises his creations.