David Oliete Casanova

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Members of the "Castellers de Vilafranca" team prepare the base of their upcoming human tower during the "Concurs de Castells de Tarragona", one of the biggest human tower competition in the world. During the event, that takes place only once every two years in the region of Catalonia, Spain, each team builds its own human towers, which are between six and ten levels high. For their success, a crowded and stunning base of hundreds of people needs to be previously perfectly set up. Human towers have been one of the most important cultural traditions in Catalonia for more than 200 years. “Strength, balance, courage and common sense” is their motto - October 6, 2012.

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1. The image was shot the October 7th 2012. 3. The image was shot at the "Human Towers Competition" in Tarragona, Spain. 4. The photographer is David Oliete Casanova 5. Description: The human towers (“castells” in Catalan) are built traditionally in festivities and competitions in Catalonia, Spain. At these events each team (“colla”) builds and dismantles several human towers. For their success, a crowded and stunning base of dozens of people needs to be previously perfectly set up.

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Captured at Tarragona on 22 Jul, 2019 by David Oliete.

Captured at Tarragona on 14 Oct, 2019 by David Oliete.

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Tarragona, 1986. Fotoperiodista i realitzador audiovisual, és membre de la junta de la Demarcació de Tarragona del Col·legi de Periodistes de Catalunya, responsable de fotografia de la revista Fet a Tarragona i professor del Curs de Fotografia Documental i Publicitària de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

Les seves fotografies han estat publicades en mitjans internacionals com National Geographic, The New York Times, GEO Magazine, Libération, The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, El País Semanal, Time Out o The Guardian. Una de les seves fotografies castelleres va ser la imatge de La Marató de TV3 l’any 2019.

En l’àmbit audiovisual és l’autor d‘anuncis del Concurs de Castells i dels curts documentals “Les Primeres Mans” i “Som Castells”, els quals juntament amb algunes de les seves fotografies han estat premiats als International Photography Awards de Nova York, el Festival SESIFF de Seül o els Tokyo Photography Awards, entre d’altres.

Entre els reconeixements més recents destaquen el XX Premi Joan Ventura i Solé de Periodisme Casteller (2015) i el Premi Manyé i Flaquer de Fotoperiodisme (2020 i 2021).