charles: a visual system of relationships between artworks

Generated Dreams: hands and floating fish

AN INDEPENDENT PRACTICECreative direction
Art
AI toolsBERLIN / POTSDAM

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Build the proof.

I’m Andrés. I work in creative direction and photography, draw and paint, and build software and electronic tools. This is a selection of commissioned work and personal projects.

Selected work

01 — 04 / FEATURED

Films, photographs and tools — with a closer look at how they were made.

Radial view of artworks in the charles research prototype — Research prototype / Developed for LUMAS
charles
A research prototype that uses visual features to explore relationships and possible lineages within a collection of artworks.

frameSeek archive grid with local search — macOS / Photo archive & film scanning
frameSeek
A photo archive with local AI search and a film-scanning workspace, from the first scan to the developed frame.

Analogue photography from Meine Belichtungszeit — Photography / Analogue practice
Meine Belichtungszeit
An analogue photography project with Kathrin. We shoot on film, develop our negatives and make prints in the darkroom. We also share the process through small-group courses in Berlin.

Darkdial rotary controller for Lightroom Classic — Hardware & software / Open source
Darkdial
A physical dial for editing and culling photographs in Lightroom Classic, with built-in time tracking for editing jobs.

ABOUT

My background is in physics and mathematics. I’ve spent the past two decades working in advertising and photography. Alongside that work, I draw, write software and build electronics — often to explore a question or solve a problem I’ve encountered myself.