VISUAL CREATOR
Commercial photographer with a passion for creating compelling visual content that tells your brand’s story. With extensive experience in photography and audiovisual content producer, I have had the pleasure of collaborating with renowned brands such as United Colors of Benetton, Merrell, Biolube, Stadium, and various culinary establishments. Let’s work together to make your brand shine!
“Everything is burning,” says Pedro as he gets out of his small plane in a hangar at Carrasco International Airport to refuel. It’s 4 p.m. and the heat doesn’t let up despite the 31 kilometers per hour wind blowing from the east. This is the worst drought ever registered in La Plata River region, where Uruguay
Quickly, the pilot and two assistants waiting for him in the hangar refuel his small two-seater single-engine plane before leaving for the third and last flight of the day, which covers a few thousand kilometers over the southeast of the country in search of fire outbreaks along a route determined by the Forest Fire Protection Operation. Read the full story in Montevideo Portal (Uruguay).
Ecuador is the world’s leading exporter of bananas, with 37 million boxes in 2020. However, human and labor rights violations, chemical contamination and the destruction of ecosystems contrast with the economic success of this agribusiness. See the full report in El Salto (Spain).
Experienced in collaborating with outdoors brands like Merrell and Patagonia. Ready to bring my expertise to your next project. Let’s connect and create something extraordinary!
Sebastián Astorga has worked as a journalist, photojournalist and video reporter for more than three years. He has been a contributor for EFE, El Salto (Spain) and Montevideo Portal (Uruguay).
Guillermo travels to the countryside to take care of Héctor, his sick father for three nights. Upon his arrival, Guillermo finds that Héctor’s condition changes at night, in which, in turn, something coming from the sky seems to approach.
During the 2021 edition of the Fenacies film festival awards, the short film project Escalando Uruguay (Climbing Uruguay) that started as a student project to document the growth of the climbing community in Uruguay thanks to the migration won as the best short film in the documentary category of the Montevideo’s festival.
What is it like to climb in Uruguay? In a country without big mountains, a group of climbers manage to make the climbing culture grow anyway. One of the founders of Montevideo Boulder Club, Pablo Velozo, and Freddy Espinoza are two Venezuelan climbers based in the Rio de la Plata country who are trying their hand at the project “El gran capuchino” (8a).
Directed and produced by
SEBASTIAN ASTORGA
Cameras
SEBASTIÁN ASTORGA
ALESSIO BERETTA
Cast
PABLO VELOZO
FREDDY ESPINOZA
OSVALDO KORN
Support from
Es Pa’rriba Magazine
Radiomundo
Montevideo Boulder Club
Music
Artist: Whitesand (Martynas Lau)
Artist: Hooksounds
Title: Apocalypse
© 2019 Sebastián Astorga – https://www.sebastorga.com – @sebastorg
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Most of the mysteries of this world live in darkness.
The condor can fly up to five thousand meters high and cross great distances in its forays in search of food.
Pre-Columbian Andean cultures consider it the bird that unites the sky and the earth and is responsible for raising the spirits of the dead to the sky.
I see photography as a way to abstract from the simple still images of my memory and turn them into moving evidence of the places that surrounded me, as a way to narrate the metaphors of my journey through these inner landscapes made in Uruguay and South America as a migrant that I am who is constantly questioned about where he comes from, knowing that there is no single answer.
The footprint (huella) and the place (lugar).
The condor can fly up to five thousand meters high and travel through large territories in their incursions in search of food. He is considered the bird that unites heaven and earth by pre-Columbian Andean cultures and is responsible for elevating the spirit of the dead to heaven. He is monogamous and, usually along his life, lonely.
Traces are the trail of peculiar beings that roam in the dark, in the landscape. They are the shadows that keep memories, the “eikon” or icon of Plato that belongs to the world of appearances and is related to the imitation made by the human mind on the eroded earth, the rough sea or the striped sky.
Over some years I have inhabited landscapes without a place to call “home”, marking and discovering traces and resonances that give voice to them, through their existence in us.
The stare on these images, these landscapes, is the result of a self-portrait looking outward.
What happens when dark dreams were dreamed in a scenery-landscape that is outside the revealed-to-our-eyes land? What wishes shaped these light changes?
The duality of light and darkness is present in these resonances, in images that keep, in the non-place, an interior mapping of myself.
This is, more than a documentary process, a physical and mental journey to an existence marked by these footprints, feeling the earth with the feet and living in a stage where sky, sea and earth unite.
Note:
This is a photographic essay that was born after seven months of work in the Procesual workshop, guided by Verónica Cordeiro.If you want to buy one, write me a message that I am happy to carry or send a copy to you (there are very few ones).