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David Cardelús has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art by the University of Barcelona. He is a specialist in contemporary architecture photography. His photos have been highlighted by their graphic plasticity and he has been a finalist twice in the European Architectural Photography Prize Architekturbild in 1995 and 1999. His photos of architecture and urban landscape have received two honour mentions in the categories of ‘Buildings’ and ‘Cityscapes’ of the Lucie Foundation International Photography Awards in 2013. Since 2004, he is a professor of photography and architecture in the ELISAVA Design & Engineer School of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
In my case, I’m a photographer who needs to search for the simplest plastic elements of Barcelona, such as its lines, shapes and colours, that are continuously present in its urban landscape, but very often, almost invisible.
When these elements surprise me, I capture them. Sharing this fascination for this attentive search gives me a powerful motivation, because at the end, I discover how to look at my city and people look at it through my own photos.
The question is how to establish an emotive communication through an image created with intention, so that each time we look at it, it awakens its infinite capacity to evoke each one of the experiences that we have lived in Barcelona.
David Cardelús has a Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Art by the University of Barcelona. He is a specialist in contemporary architecture photography. His photos have been highlighted by their graphic plasticity and he has been a finalist twice in the European Architectural Photography Prize Architekturbild in 1995 and 1999. His photos of architecture and urban landscape have received two honour mentions in the categories of ‘Buildings’ and ‘Cityscapes’ of the Lucie Foundation International Photography Awards in 2013. Since 2004, he is a professor of photography and architecture in the ELISAVA Design & Engineer School of the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona.
In my case, I’m a photographer who needs to search for the simplest plastic elements of Barcelona, such as its lines, shapes and colours, that are continuously present in its urban landscape, but very often, almost invisible.
When these elements surprise me, I capture them. Sharing this fascination for this attentive search gives me a powerful motivation, because at the end, I discover how to look at my city and people look at it through my own photos.
The question is how to establish an emotive communication through an image created with intention, so that each time we look at it, it awakens its infinite capacity to evoke each one of the experiences that we have lived in Barcelona.
Four chimneys of colour Mosaic against the blue sky in spring conclude the height of the Casa Batlló over the Paseo de Gracia in Barcelona.
In StockThe multi-colour cover of Casa Batlló represents the back of a dragon that is resting attentive in this emblematic building of Gaudí in Barcelona.
In StockThe façade of Casa Batlló with the morning sun is a monumental canvas of mosaic and pieces of glass in bright and saturated colours.
In StockThe delicate arcs that support the colourful cover of the Casa Batlló are the dragon ribs, who is sleeping quietly and in silence over the Gaudí building.
In StockThe colourful pavilions of Sant Pau Hospital were created as a city inside the city, well ventilated and surrounded by gardens, thought to improve patients’ recovery.
In StockThe dome coronating the hall Pavilion of the Sant Pau Hospital opens its wings with the soft light of winter sunset.
In StockThe wavy cover of Santa Caterina market is a huge colour sheet floating over the historic landscape of Barcelona.
In StockPassing by the Padua Street, we can see this modernist jewel dated of 1903. It was built by the architect Granell y Manresa. Its façade is ornamented with elegant sgraffitos and colourful stain glass windows.
In StockA monumental big arc gets the light and colour in the yellow Mosaic cover of the Domènech i Montaner Room in the Sant Pau Hospital.
In StockAn ordered sequence of structural elements in bright colours support the façade of Las Arenas shopping centre in Barcelona, as a construction game.
In StockThe Encants Market cover is a huge golden mirror suspended over the city that captures all its colour in detail during an autumn afternoon.
In StockThe skin of the CNMC building as an orange oxide shining in a summer morning gets together with the Agbar Tower at the 22@ District of Barcelona.
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