We understand that every creative project begins with a vision—a story waiting to be told. We provide production project management that protects that vision while giving it structure and rhythm.
Drawing from experience across multiple industries, we bring grounded operational expertise into creative spaces—introducing clarity without disrupting flow. We help production teams artists organize timelines, coordinate moving pieces, and navigate complexity so they can stay immersed in the creative process.
From concept to completion, we create the conditions that allow ideas to move forward so your work reaches its fullest expression.
ESPACIO BE was founded by Brenda Lee Hernández, whose work lives at the intersection of structure and expression. Alongside her production and project management expertise, Brenda maintains an active street photography practice—an art form that sharpens her sensitivity to timing, composition, and human connection.
Through photography, she studies rhythm, movement, and the quiet details that often go unnoticed. This artistic lens informs how she approaches production: with awareness, adaptability, and respect for the creative process. She understands both the discipline required to deliver a project and the vulnerability required to create one.
By bridging operational leadership with lived artistic practice, Brenda brings empathy, clarity, and balance to every collaboration—supporting artists not just as a manager of projects, but as someone who deeply values the act of creation itself.
Group Exhibitions
2025 Speak, Rise & Celebrate. Gallery 1701, Chicago Center for the Arts and Technology (CHICAT), Chicago, IL (curated by Yidi Wang).
2025 Puerto Rican Women in Arts. Liga de Arte de San Juan, San Juan, PR (curated by Alexis Figueroa, Trailer Park Proyects).
2025 Collective Narratives: Art, Influences & Inspirations from Around the City. Zhou B Art Center, Chicago, IL (curated by Takako Konishi, Bridgeport Artist Community).
2025 Puerto Rican Women in Arts. El Schomburg | Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Chicago, IL (curated by Alexis Figueroa, Trailer Park Proyects).
2024 A White Noise: Reordering Chaos. El Schomburg | Espacio de Arte Contemporáneo, Chicago, IL (curated by Brenda Torres-Figueroa).
Solo Exhibition
2024 Showcase Artist of the Month. Bottles Up, Chicago, IL.
Brenda Lee Hernández Díaz is a Puerto Rican photographer based in Chicago, Illinois. She began capturing people, places, and everyday life in Puerto Rico, with her vision deepening after early travels to Europe and South America. Over time, she gravitated toward street, portrait, and documentary photography through international travel and living in multiple U.S. cities. Around 2018, her work developed a stronger focus on the human, cultural, and spiritual during a period of personal and existential reflection that led her to India, Mexico, France, and Quebec, Canada. More recently, in 2025, her work has evolved toward projects informed by conceptual investigation and creative experimentation.
Artist Statement
Photography allows me to refocus my attention and feel more deeply connected to my surroundings and to myself. Carrying a camera anchors me in the present, sharpening my awareness of the fleeting nature of each moment. There is an urgency in the act of photographing; it is my attempt to hold what will soon slip into the past.
In 2021, my relationship to the photographic image transformed through the printing process. Seeing photographs take physical form was both emotionally and materially profound. It clarified the connection between my inner life and the subjects I was compelled to photograph. Printing also raised questions about the fate of images that exist only digitally. On paper, the photograph becomes tangible, an object shaped by intention and permanence.
By 2025, this approach expanded beyond the limits of print and conventional display into broader possibilities for photographic expression and visual storytelling. My work has increasingly focused on conceptually grounded projects that embrace risk and experimentation. This evolution has led me to explore new directions in photography, incorporating mixed media, multimedia, and archival material.
Taller de Títulos. PÁGINA en BLANDO. Ciudad de México, MX. 2025.
Tesis sobre la Fotografía y la Historia. PÁGINA en BLANDO. Ciudad de México, MX. 2025.
Conceptual Emocional. PÁGINA en BLANDO. Ciudad de México, MX. 2025.
Curaduría Digital. Casa Garita Centro Cultural y Estudio Visual. Oaxaca, México, MX. 2020
The Art of Street Photography. Magnum Learn. USA. 2019.
Photography Fundamentals, Chicago Photography Classes. Chicago, IL. 2011.