José Castrellón

About

José Castrellón is a New York–based photographer from Panamá. His work has been featured in M Le Monde, Domus, Esquire Russia, and Fisheye. His work has been exhibited at Tate Modern; Museo del Barrio, NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome; Medellín Art Museum; and others. Castrellón works with photography, video, found objects, and text, and moves between conceptual and documentary realms, taking history as a point of departure to address anthropological and sociological concerns. He is interested in the cultural modifications of society and the physical transformation of urban and rural spaces as brought about by commercialism, construction, colonialism, and geopolitical conflict.