About us


WeDoArt is a creative project by Vicent Peris and Alicia Lozano dedicated to the art and science of astrophotography. This website aims to serve as a meeting point for artists seeking inspiration. Here, you will find not only the photographic works of the authors but also their thoughts, feelings and creative processes.

Philosophy plays a vital role in this project. Here you can explore the underlying principles that guide the practice of astrophotographic art, which have been developed by the authors in collaboration with the PixInsight Development Team over the past two decades. At WeDoArt, the authors aim to promote two key philosophical aspects of their artwork:

Philosophy is born from the work of art. But the work of art is born from education. WeDoArt is also an advanced learning lab that draws on the extensive teaching experience of the authors. On this website you will find free and paid learning resources that focus on image processing techniques and their practical implementation in the PixInsight software platform.

WeDoArt is responsible for creating the official learning resources for Pleiades Astrophoto. As members of the PixInsight Development Team, WeDoArt authors provide a reliable source of knowledge. You can access the video tutorials either from this website or directly from the PixInsight official YouTube channel.

Lastly, on this website you can also explore the delicate entanglement between technique and art philosophy through the articles section.

At WeDoArt we aim to inspire you, whether you are astrophotographer, any other kind of artist or simply an individual seeking to connect your knowledge with ours. We strongly believe that astrophotography is an art form that conveys an essential message to modern society.

The WeDoArt Team


Vicent has a degree in Music. With a career as an astrophotographer spanning more than twenty years, he is one of the few in the world to dedicate himself professionally to this discipline. For fifteen years he has been working at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia where, in addition to developing his artistic work with the entity's instrumental means, he is in charge of operating the telescopes for the department's scientific projects.

Vicent has been part of the development team of the PixInsight software platform since its starting point in 2007. He has contributed to this platform with his own techniques, from which tens of thousands of users benefit today. Currently, PixInsight is one of the main image-processing applications for astrophotography.

In addition to his activity in technical development, he also has an intense educational activity. He has taken image processing courses in America, Europe and Asia, in which he teaches his techniques and philosophy and ethics through the PixInsight platform. These technical and ethical achievements have managed to establish Vicent as a reference for thought, which has led him to develop large-scale professional projects. At the Calar Alto observatory, he directed an astrophotography project during the years 2009 to 2014. This was the first project worldwide where observation time from professional telescopes was allocated for purely artistic use. Furthermore, he was in charge at the same observatory of giving a visual meaning to the ALHAMBRA project, a celestial mapping that used a novel system of 23 filters to make a three-dimensional map of the Universe. Currently, he is also the astrophotographer of the J-PAS project, developed at the Javalambre Astrophysical Observatory, which is the natural evolution of the ALHAMBRA project, where 50 filters and a 1.2 gigapixel camera are used.

Photographing the invisible (English edition in the works) is the first book by Vicent. It focuses on the entire basis of thought that has governed his work during the last two decades, both on an ethical and pictorial level. In it, Vicent describes his personal research process, in which he combines concepts from other arts such as music or painting to create his unique and transversal visual language. The aesthetic theory developed by the author is what defines much of the practice of image processing in current astrophotography internationally, which is based on two main points. The first is the disintegration of the image to preserve the content of the parts. The second is the relativization of human perception, where photography becomes a construction that aspires to communicate the invisible, what is out of reach of our eyes.

Vicent has also successful experience in forensics working as image processing specialist for the Spanish National Police department.



Alicia is a Chemistry graduate from the University of Seville and an Expert in Observational Astronomy from the International University of Valencia. His final degree project was on meteor spectroscopy, with data obtained from the Meteor Network of the Malaga Astronomy Society and the University of Malaga. A project where chemistry and astronomy come together to analyze the spectra of these bodies that constantly reach our atmosphere. She has been passionate about photography and astrophotography in particular for the last 7 years. Currently, she is pursuing it professionally as part of the PixInsight development team, where she undertakes training and audiovisual production tasks.

Alicia also develops outreach activities, being responsible for public observations at the Astronomical Observatory of the University of Valencia in Aras de los Olmos. She is a member of the Andalusian Astronomy Network and serves as the coordinator of the communication commission within the Seville Astronomy association.