Draft:JC Candanedo

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Candanedo and the second or maternal family name is Sáez.
JC Candanedo
Candanedo in 2025
Born
Juan Carlos Candanedo Sáez

Panama City, Panama
Other nameJC Candanedo
Occupation
  • Multi-disciplinary artist
Websitejccandanedo.com

Juan Carlos Candanedo Sáez is primarily a photographer, using his camera as a tool for social justice. His work explores identity, migration, humanism, social justice, and representation.[1][2]

Artistic Practice

Candanedo's work engages with themes of belonging, identity, self-representation, human rights, and the experiences of diasporic communities. His practice uses photography, analogue processes, performance, plant-based pigments, and textile experimentation to explore cultural memory and social history.[3] His projects often involve long-term collaborations with communities and advocacy groups, centring underrepresented voices.[4][5][6][7]

His work has been featured in exhibitions, public art commissions, and international publications.[8][9]

Notable works include:

  • Aberfeldy Stories (2022): public space exhibition featuring photographic portraits and oral histories of residents in East London's Aberfeldy Estate undergoing regeneration. The project, in collaboration with local arts collective The People Speak, was exhibited at East India Green.[10]
  • Decolonising Fashion and Textiles (2023): A research project developed with the London College of Fashion and the Centre for Sustainable Fashion, exploring ethics, sustainability, and postcolonial perspectives in textile and fashion design. The work engaged communities with refugee and asylum-seeking backgrounds.[11][12]
  • Your order is on its way (2025): street-based exhibition celebrating Brazilian modernism and the cultural contributions of migrant communities in London, produced in partnership with theatre director Gustavo Dias-Vallejo and curated by the Royal Academy of Arts.[13][14]

Music

Candanedo is credited as the writer of Has Estado en Panamá[15], an early musical work that helped launch the career of Panamanian, two-time Grammy Award-winning artist Erika Ender. The song has been referenced in Spanish, Brazilian, and international media in connection with Ender's formative career trajectory [16][17][18][19]. Erika Ender is better known as the co-writer of Despacito, the biggest hit of 2017 according to Billboard, which spent 16 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100.[20]

Advocacy

JC Candanedo is the former chairperson of Central London Humanists[21] He regularly speaks and writes about the intersection of the Arts and activism.

Recognitions and Roles

References

  1. ^ "JC Candanedo Full Biography".
  2. ^ a b c "Juan Carlos Candanedo Saez - Companies House website".
  3. ^ "Artists Make Space 2025–26 residency profile".
  4. ^ "Mental Health and Photography: JC Candanedo uses his work for awareness".
  5. ^ "A new kind of normal".
  6. ^ "JC Candanedo 'Catalonia: A Work In Progress'".
  7. ^ "Business and Entrepreneurship in Fashion Podcast by Revstance. 12/05/2021 Episode".
  8. ^ "Head-spinning talent: winners from the AOP awards – in pictures". The Guardian.
  9. ^ "Association of Photographers 2020 Award winners unveiled".
  10. ^ "Wharf Life Newspaper – "Making a Decade"". 17 August 2022.
  11. ^ "Decolonising Fashion and Textiles". University of the Arts London.
  12. ^ "Decolonising Fashion and Textiles". Centre for Sustainable Fashion.
  13. ^ "BUILDHOLLYWOOD Feature". Brasil Brasil.
  14. ^ "Revista ZUM interview".
  15. ^ "Has Estado en Panamá". Apple Music.
  16. ^ "Erika Ender official biography".
  17. ^ "Erika Ender sobre Elisa de Céspedes: "Ella fue una profesora de cómo amar a Panamá"".
  18. ^ "Erika Ender".
  19. ^ "Erika Ender le rinde homenaje a Panamá en sus 500 años".
  20. ^ "'Despacito' Co-Writer Erika Ender Looks Back on 25 Years of Ups and Downs".
  21. ^ "Humanism Now Podcast – Episode 36".
  22. ^ "Noria Collective Website - Our Team".
  23. ^ "New Co-Chairs at Axis: Embracing Collaboration".
  24. ^ "Image Matters: Telling the story of your practice".
  25. ^ "Sustainability and the Environment. The AOP's work and action for change".
  26. ^ "Artists Make Space 2025–26 residency profile".
  27. ^ "From Darien to Twickenham: Reconstructing Historical Memory Through Phototextile Artefacts". Museums Ethnographers Group Blog.

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