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.

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 es un fotógrafo de formación autodidacta.

Empecé a trabajar como fotógrafo en el año 2004. Abrí un estudio junto a dos amigos al mismo tiempo que trabajaba en el estudio de otro fotógrafo donde realizaba fotografía de bodegón publicitario, arquitectura/interiorismo, foto de producto y retratos. En el 2007 dejo ambos estudios y empiezo a trabajar solo para mí, realizando trabajos en publicidad, editorial, arquitectura, deportes...No me he especializado en ningún campo en concreto ya que me gusta tocar varias temáticas y la posibilidad de alternar entre ellas. Mi fotografías se han publicado en revistas nacionales e internacionales como Esquire, Gq, DT, Men's Health, Runner's World,  etc... y he trabajado para clientes nacionales, europeos y americanos . Actualmente mi actividad se desarrolla entre los encargos publicitarios y editoriales y el trabajo personal.

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Published on: April 18, 2013
Cite: ""Espacios de insurgencia / Insurgency spaces" by Carlos Hernández." METALOCUS. Accessed
<http://www.metalocus.es/en/news/espacios-de-insurgencia-insurgency-spaces-carlos-hern%C3%A1ndez> ISSN 1139-6415
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