Pimentel White #14 - Limited Edition 1 of 10 Photograph

Elkin Cabarcas examines celebrity and contemporary luxury through the expanded field of editorial photography and large-format fine art. His Studio Street series has achieved sustained international recognition, progressively consolidating its position within the contemporary art market. In July 2020, the large-format Limited Edition (1/10) work Studio Street London #9 (110 × 180 cm) was acquired by a prominent collector associated with Seattle’s cultural and financial ecosystem. The work is currently held in a high-profile private collection that includes pieces by influential photographers such as Nan Goldin, Robert Adams, and Richard Misrach, situating Cabarcas’s practice in meaningful dialogue with key figures in contemporary photographic discourse. This milestone further reinforces the international projection of his visual research. Elkin Cabarcas (Barranquilla, Colombia) is an internationally recognised visual artist of Spanish and Colombian nationality, based in Barcelona. For more than two decades he has developed a practice centred on the construction of the contemporary image at the intersection of editorial culture, celebrity photography, and large-format fine art. Having photographed high-visibility figures—including Shakira, Madonna, Leonardo DiCaprio, Paris Hilton, Kate Moss, and Naomi Campbell, as well as events connected to European royalty—Cabarcas has built a distinctive archive examining the mechanisms through which fame is produced and circulated in the contemporary media ecosystem. His work unfolds across sites of heightened symbolic and media exposure, including Cannes, Nice, Ibiza, Barcelona, and London. In his editorial project The Everyday Celebrity, the artist redirects the gaze away from spectacle toward the intervals of normality that sustain public visibility. Far from sensationalism, his approach proposes a restrained and analytical reading of celebrity as both a cultural condition and an environmental phenomenon of the twenty-first century. Artist Statement — Elkin Cabarcas My artistic practice operates at the critical intersection between the construction of fame and the gradual dissolution of identity within the flow of time. After more than two decades documenting iconic figures of global culture—from Madonna and Leonardo DiCaprio to European royalty—my gaze has progressively shifted toward investigating the mechanisms of visibility and the ephemeral traces we leave within the urban landscape.