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. Photojournalist and filmmaker, he is member of the Catalan Journalism Association in Tarragona, chief photographer at Fet a Tarragona magazine and Photography professor at the Universitat Rovira i Virgili.

His photographs have been published on international media such as National Geographic, The New York Times, GEO Magazine, Libération, The Times, Daily Telegraph, The Sunday Times, El País Semanal, Time Out and The Guardian. One of his human tower pictures was the official image of La Marató de TV3 in 2019.

Regarding his audiovisual projects, he is the author of some commercials for the Concurs de Castells and the short documentaries “The First Hands” and “Som Castells”. These videos, among other some photopgraphy projects, have been awarded at the International Photography Awards, Seoul SESIFF Festival and Tokyo Photography Awards, among others.

Among his most recent awards stand out the “XX Premi Joan Ventura i Solé de Periodisme Casteller” (2015) and the “Premi Manyé i Flaquer de Fotoperiodisme” (2020, 2021).