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"Human landscapes" deals with different sceneries marked by the development process of modern society and by the prints of its history. Concrete and metal act as fundamental elements in the change of the environment and its resource. In this transformation devastation becomes a creative force that generates decadent and attractive demonized landscapes that remind aspects of the European industrial history.. This concept of panoramic photo allows the artist to focus on the qualities and the values of the urban and industrial advancement where the borderlines between places and “no-places” result blurred The collection of pictures shows to the public a guided path throughout some concrete and metal jungles in several European cities as Benidorm, Valencia, Castellón, Madrid, Barcelone, Lille, Liège, Wrocław. Daniel Calatayud is a member of an international group of emerging young photographers, LPE,Le Photographe Européen, that was created in the Belgian city of Liège in 2007. In this moment the group is composed of four artists from different countries: Italy, France, Spain and Poland. After the participation to a number of collective exhibitions, presented also during his appreticeship as photographer, the Valencian artist shows on this exhibition part of his early artwork that he is still experimenting