Sebastian Demarco

Here is the story of my journey exploring the world as a profesional photographer, it took me to very curious places...

Hope you guys enjoy it .

The year 1985 brought Sebastian Demarco two experiences that would set the path for the rest of his life.
At age 13 he fell in love for the first time, and the very same day got to know (although he didn’t realized it at the time) what would be his passion, the so far unknown art of photography.

And a complete revelation came right next, when he saw his uncle Horacio coming back from a two months film trip in the Bolivian Altiplano. Tanned although it was winter, with a handmade palm straw hat on and a long beard he wasn’t wearing when he left. Both Horacio’s Hemingway-minded need to explore and the possibility of self-expression through the art got Sebastian hooked in a path of no return.

Shortly after, Sebastian “confiscated” his first camera, an old Yashica Linx 1000 he found on his father’s desk and along with a basic photography class his mother got him, got ready to hit the road.

Third generation of cinematographers (although completely by chance, cinematography was at the time a habit in the family not a tradition), along the years the Argentinean studied Photography Direction, Drawing and Architecture. The latter gave him a unique approach to the composition of images, an ability to deconstruct the reality in layers of light and volume, portraying the different faces of a subject and narrating the intention and expectation that lay beyond every instant. Strongly influenced by Kubrick’s expressionist use of light, and magic realist Jorge Luis Borges’ capacity to make the impossible seem possible by the utilization of the right language, Demarco soon understood photography’s endless expressive possibilities.

During the 90s the photographer met his mentor Javier Perez and started to experiment with movement, as his career expanded towards videography and photography direction. It marked the first milestone in a life of swinging from unearthing dinosaurs’ bones in Mexico one week to work with Carolina Herrera in New York the next. The beginning of the adventure, still in the making 20 years later.

By this time, aware of his passion for Borges, Argentine writer Alejandro Horowicz asked Sebastian to shoot Buenos Aires from the point of view of his favorite writer, knowing already what that choice would be… And set the start for what was the most fulfilling experience in Sebastian’s artistic life.

The result of that invitation is “Uqbar, Borges, Buenos Aires” a singular and desolated vision in black and white of the city in which Borges grew up.

Years later, already living in Miami, and out of his nostalgia for “the city”, this work got merged with the years studying architecture and evolved into “Mythic deconstruction of Buenos Aires” inspired in the short tale “The Immortal”, by JLB, of course.

His passion for adventure didn’t always get him into the right place…

After “Mythic deconstruction” Sebastian decided to go back to basics and move into a sail boat, without electricity or running water, anchored off the coast of Biscayne Bay. The experience got cut short before a year when a combination of hurricanes Charley and Frances sank it, almost with him on board.

Within the last decade, since relocating to Miami, he founded Finisterre Films (The Last Land Films) and has worked for such prestigious companies as A&E, E! Entertainment, HBO, History Channel, Warner Channel and Yahoo!, also collaborating with most renowned major film studios, working with stars such as Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman, Robert Rodriguez and Eva Longoria and many others.

In 2013 his passion for adventure got him to go around the world on a solo trip.

“The world through my window” is the offspring of that experience.

Right after that trip Sebastian decided to settle down, started the Wynwood period and opened his studio and Finisterre Films offices in Wynwood, Miami’s art district, his father’s old Yashica still accompanying him today…​