Diego Hernández Sancho (b. 1996.  Zaragoza, Spain) is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily with photography, time-based media, audio, installation and found objects. He lives and works in London, UK.

His practice ponders on the concepts of youth and time, understood both through the lens of the contemporary phenomena of acceleration.

Employing his camera as a key to intimate spaces, a sense of innocence and kindness populates his work, underpinning the emotional unraveling of the coming-of-age subject. Moving from the particular to the generational, and drifting through images of totemic quality about growth, change and memory, the artist wages both emotionally and artistically with the concepts of persistence and absence, and their direct correlation with the atomization of the self.

Sourcing inspiration from his own upbringing and sexual orientation, he insists in figures of transcendent beauty ranging from quotidian objects to male bodies, passing through exceptional events mixed in with the routinary, all of them arranged in a non-hierarchical structure, and framed in the idiosincratyc imagery of the 21sr century.

Heavily inspired by filmmaking and the technique of montage, Diego’s work trusts its multiple interpretations to the recombination of images and media and the communication stablished between discordant elements.

He is interested in time dilation through the emotional dimension of its nature. Relying on the physical impossibility of his mission, the artist attributes paranormal qualities to the artistic apparatus, which ties together his exploration of time and youth with the ghost-like entities that appeal to teenagers on horror films, both embodying the (im-)possibility of rupturing the parameters of reality, defying the laws of nature and allowing for its malleability.

In 2022, he founded PANG! Projects, an itinerant platform for contemporary creatives, based primarily between London and Barcelona. PANG! has hosted multiple group exhibitions for young artists who are shaping with their praxis a contemporary art landscape beyond the old-fashioned gallery establishment.











I AM FULL OF LOVE is a photographic project on the coming of age experience.

A generational feeling of longing for a fuller, extended experience of teenage wonder and freedom amidst the times of social acceleration is represented in an array of images, ranging from portraits to still lifes, all hand printed through darkroom technique.

With the camera working as a key to the personal spaces of subjects facing the end of their childhood, a sense of intimacy, innocence  and kindness populates the images, underpinning the enhanced emotional unravelling of the teenager. The projects reflects, not only on the experience of the subjects documented through the process, but in the coming of age of the author and its relation with youth that appears already lost or wasted to the idiosyncrasy of the 21st Century.

Understood Time as a constant pushing towards the end of the life period this project is trying to capture, dealing with this matter from a photographic perspective as much as from an emotional one turns into one of the essential research points for this series.
Moving from the personal to the generational passing through images of totemic quality about growth, change and memory, the project tries to find assertion through the interconnection of elements and media, aiming for the holistic, to bring close the spectator to an experience that may be as theirs as it is the author’s either internally as it is visually.

I AM FULL OF LOVE is an ongoing series of work, with its first chapter completed in 2020.



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All Images Diego Hernández Sancho.
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