Carlos von der Heyde (b. 1978, Mendoza) is an Argentine photographer based in London. In 2019, he fully transitioned into photography after almost twenty years in the legal profession. His work explores the interplay between image-making and the concept of consciousness, and delves into realms as diverse as cultural commentary, social critique and transcendence.
Carlos holds a law degree (Diploma de Honor Award) from Universidad Austral (Argentina), a master of European Business Law (Best Student Award) from Fundación Carolina/UFV (Spain), and an LL.M. degree (Appel Fellow and Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar) from Columbia University School of Law, and was part of Cleary Gottlieb’s New York sovereign law practice from 2007 to 2019.
In November 2025, a selection of Carlos’s images was featured in “Fictions of the Real: New Visual Narratives from Ibero-America,” a group exhibition at the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Madrid, organized as part of the 25th Anniversary of Fundación Carolina. In May 2024, images from Carlos’s “Souls of a Movement” project were featured at the 15th edition of the Passion for Freedom itinerant art festival, which took place in Brooklyn, NYC. In June 2022, Carlos debuted his solo photography installation “Souls of a Movement” at Chinatown Soup, a community art center in downtown NYC.
Carlos’s images have also been featured in “Revolution is Love: A Year of Black Trans Liberation,” a photo book published by Aperture in 2022; in Bookforum magazine’s 2022/23 winter issue; in New York’s ICP 2020 “#ICP Concerned: Global images for Global Crisis” exhibition and related photo book; in the 2020 US nationwide “Awakening” billboard campaign organized by For Freedoms, an artist-led platform for civic engagement co-founded by conceptual artist Hank Willis Thomas; by the Seminar of Mexican Culture and El Universal newspaper (Mexico); in an interview by Adriana Malvido (2012 Mexican National Journalism Award / 2019 National Tribute to Cultural Journalism by the Guadalajara International Book Fair) for Paso Libre (Grupo de Reflexión de Economía y Cultura–Mexico); by Canal 13 TV network (Chile); and on the social media platforms of Aperture, Fotografiska New York, NYT best seller Aubrey Marcus, Time Square Alliance, Until Freedom, Grassroots Law Project, Cool Hunting, and Kreëmart.