The Economist   In many parts of the world, the cool blast of an air-conditioner on a hot day is nowadays seen as a luxury rather than a necessity. Climate change is tipping the balance. Average global temperatures are now roughly 1.2°C higher than they were before

Manuel Álvarez Dietro’s photo series connects his travels with architectural spaces that feature air conditioning systems. The idea is to highlight this technology as a symbol of human absence. The images were taken during the pandemic and in moments

The latest photography series of Manuel Álvarez Diestro (Santander, 1972) is inspired by the monolith that appears in the Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. These vertical structures dominate landscapes in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. Álv

The photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro and the visual artist Karlos Gil explore city of Madrid’s subterranean world. This photo series shows the entrails of essential engineering infrastructures like transportation networks, water management reservo

On view through 15 September at the Water Museum of Alicante is ‘The Caves of Steel,’ a traveling exhibition of architectural photography by Manuel Álvarez Diestro (Santander, 1972). Gathered are images taken by the Cantabrian photographer on five co

A decade after his series of dense urban landscapes juxtaposed with cemeteries of Hong Kong, the photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro presents images of graveyards in the Egyptian desert. Necropoli of Egypt captures surrealist compositions that reflec

The Cantabrian photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro traveled to Kyiv before the conflict and took pictures of the Ukrainian capital's latest urban developments. This photo series seeks to create a metaphor for hope through new constructions that somed

The photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro captures the least-known image of Cairo's architectural legacy by focusing on brutalist structures of the last century. In composing the shots he presents the buildings in a context of abandonment and marginali

The photography series by Manuel Álvarez Diestro is a look at the growth of new Chinese cities from the windows of bullet trains moving 350 km per hour. China’s railway network links up 550 cities. From Beijing to Shanghai, Tianjin, or Xian, later fr

A photo series by Manuel Álvarez Diestro (Santander, 1972) captures the development of new affordable housing outside Iran's major cities, particularly the capital, Tehran.

On view from 19 July to 3 August at Palbok Art Factory, a cultural center in the South Korean city of Jeonju, is an exhibition on the work of the Spanish photographer Manuel Álvarez Diestro. ‘Boxification,’ a series of images shot in industrial ports

CityLab   Photographer Manuel Alvarez Diestro investigates the massive, mysterious underbellies of Han River overpasses...

The work of Manuel Álvarez Diestro (Santander, 1972) proposes meditating on the place that man occupies on earth, and reflects the disastrous consequences of human activity, but also the beauty underlying the transformed landscapes. Diestro has carri