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 September 2026, Carlos launched his first book, “Revealed Scenes: On Spaces of Self-Representation at a Watershed Moment” (Díaz Ortiz Ediciones, edited and art-directed by Ananké Asseff), accompanied by a solo exhibition at Rolf Art in Buenos Aires. The project explores the intimate spaces that emerged during the 2020 global isolation through 117 remote, videoconference-captured scenes spanning 35 countries.
Previously, 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 in Brooklyn, NYC, following his June 2022 solo photography installation of the project at Chinatown Soup in downtown NYC.
Carlos’s projects 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; in an interview by Paula Zacharías for La Nación newspaper; in an interview by Abril Gatica for Perfil; 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 (Mexico); in an interview by Agustina Bullrich for ViceVersa Magazine; by Revista Noticias and Revista D&D (Argentina); by the Seminar of Mexican Culture and El Universal newspaper (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.