Elkin Cabarcas Mora

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—includi...

EDUCATION & BACKGROUND

Filmmaking & Audiovisual Production | Cannes Film Festival (2016) – Official Selection Short Film Corner ("Las Corales de Barbate").

Journalism & Social Communication | Barranquilla, Colombia.

Art Residencies & Practice | Barcelona, London, Paris, Nice, Ibiza, Cannes (2004 - Present).

Works by Elkin Cabarcas are held in private collections in:

United Kingdom: London (Kensington, Shoreditch).

United States: New York, Miami, Los Angeles.

Europe: Madrid, Barcelona, Paris.