Carlos David

Photography
New York, U.S.

Artist Development Fund recipient, 2021

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Photograph of Carlos David. Close up, horizontal black and white headshot. A serious man with a short beard and short textured fringe looking at the camera. He is wearing a dark-gray lambswool sweater on top of layered clothing against a white background diagonally divided in light and shadow—hard sunlight.

Photograph of Carlos David. Close up, vertical color headshot. Smiling adult man. No beard and black hair with salt and pepper short sideburns. Wearing a pale pink t-shirt with tinny black dots. His blurred palm is covering one quart of the right side of the frame.

“We are currently experiencing an evolution of beauty standards, but there is still a disconnection between who we are and the images we see. Diversity is essential.”

Meet Carlos

Carlos David is a Mexican-American visual artist focusing on diversity and inclusion. Living and working between New York City, Slovenia, and Mexico, he explores the complicated relationship between how we see ourselves and the objective reality captured by the camera and the observer. The focus of his work is to create a portfolio of authentic images representing culture, personality, and identity.

His commission project for Artist Development Fund will explore the complexity of Mexican culture's flavors, rituals, and characters. David's project proposes an in-depth experience of sacred ceremonies, the taste of traditional foods and their makings, and how these relate to the trades of the new world of technologies and communications. The photographs will investigate the evolution and adaptation of culture and identity and what it means to be Mexican today. David is a 2019 LMCC and UMEZ grantee. His work has been shown in New York City, Mexico City, York, England, and Rovinj, Croatia. He was shortlisted for the 2021 Aesthetica Art Prize.