Daniel Garay Arango

By LatAm ARTE

Daniel Garay Arango is a Colombian photographer based in Bogotá, specializing in fine art architectural and street photography in black and white. He captures the unseen layers of urban environments using monochrome and imagination to reveal what lies hidden in plain sight. Garay Arango sees his work as a patient exercise in observation, using architecture as his primary language to create timeless imagery defined by light, texture, and form. One of his most notable projects is GRVTY2 , a series that deconstructs architecture to explore what the world would look like without gravity, which won international recognition in 2018. He has received numerous prestigious awards including the MonoVisions Awards, International Photography Awards, Fine Art Photography Awards, The Yellow Awards, Smithsonian Photo Contest, and the London International Creative Competition. His work has been showcased in international exhibitions, including at the Círculo de Bellas Artes in Madrid and the Latin American edition of the Sony World Photography Awards Exhibition in Medellín. Through his powerful compositions, he transforms everyday architectural scenes into poetic visual narratives that transcend time and place. His photography often invites viewers to question their relationship with urban landscapes, presenting buildings as both monumental and fragile. With his minimalist yet dramatic aesthetic, Garay Arango blends precision and imagination to create new perspectives on space. He continues to explore themes of gravity, balance, and silence, finding beauty in the structures that shape human experience. For him, black and white photography is not a limitation but a powerful language to highlight light, shadow, and geometry. His work stands as a dialogue between architecture and art, capturing the hidden poetry of concrete, steel, and glass. As a leading figure in contemporary Colombian photography, Daniel Garay Arango has inspired younger generations to approach urban life with curiosity and creativity.