"Espacios de insurgencia / Insurgency spaces" by Carlos Hernández.
18/04/2013.
METALOCUS "F" "In Focus.
metalocus, JUAN SOLERA.
metalocus, JUAN SOLERA.
METALOCUS presents the last work of the series dedicated to photographers working in our cities, this time we show the work of the Spanish photographer Carlos Hernandez. Our series "In Focus" about photography, in its second article, shows some images of singular spots of the cities such as the cementery of Enric Miralles and Carme Pinós or sculpture works by Chillida.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Espacios de insurgencia. Fotografía © Carlos Hernández.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández.
Insurgency spaces. Photograph © Carlos Hernández. Click below to see larger image.
Carlos Hernández uses the climber´s action within the urban context to create a series of black and white images in which the exterior visual context comes to an abstraction. This view makes our attention to be focused only in the action that takes place between the urban element and the climber, to allow a way for a personal interpretation of what urban spaces may become for each of us.
" I started this series of images mainly because I like the aesthetic charge that is created by mixing urban buildings or sculptures with people climbing. The dynamic and strength of bodies in tension interacting with these spaces, which are not the usual to practice climbing, create new forms of interpretation where the most important is not the building or the person itself but the common space they create. A space where both use each other and, where some areas, that may not be important to define the building itself, are interesting to create a relationship with the model. Although my intention with this series was purely aesthetic, can be a reinterpretation on how we use our urban spaces and how we adapt it to us. Is it possible to reinterpret the uses for which they were originally created? Is it possible we can use them for anything else? "
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CARLOS HERNÁNDEZ
Carlos Hernández is a self-taught person who started working as a photographer in 2004.
I opened a studio with two friends while working in the studio of another photographer where he performed advertising, still life photography, architecture / interior design, product and portrait photography. In 2007 I left both studies and started working on my own, in advertising, editorial, architecture, sports... I have not specialized myself in any particular field because I enjoy playing various themes and having the possibility to switch from one to another. My photographs have been published in national and international magazines such as Esquire, GQ, DT, Men's Health, Runner's World, etc... and worked for national, European and American clients. My activity currently develops between advertising, editorial assignments and personal work.
