Argentina, URUGUAY & CHILE

Jasmine Rossi
Behind the Lens
"Andean Dawn”

Jasmine Rossi was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to an Italian father and German mother. She grew up in Italy, Spain and Germany and holds a master’s degree from London University.

Since 2000 she resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina  - close to her favourite “canvas”, the gigantic ice-fields of southern Patagonia, a region on which she has published three photo books. 

Rossi’s Patagonia series covers a decade of work in a place so remote that it is known as “the uttermost part of the earth”.  Her images were projected at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, at the National Arts Club in New York, and the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires. A series of solo-exhibitions of her photographs followed in Argentina between 2000 and 2014. From 2013 to 2016 they were shown in Switzerland, Germany and in an exhibit at the Vatican. Her studio is nature in its rawest form and her subjects are created by wind, water and time: a primeval world of thousand-year old holy trees, gigantic glaciers and ethereal deserts …  

ARTINVESTOR magazine

“The world, as it has been for millennia, is changing, and Rossi has chosen photography as a medium to stir our conscience, and make us reflect on the dire question of the future of our planet. 

Her images are historical snapshots, conscious compositions created with a sense of urgency, aware that she is up against a race with time… “                                  

PUBLICATIONS

The Spirit of the North, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2008

Las Cuatro Estaciones de la Patagonia, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2005

The Spirit of Patagonia, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2002

La Patagonia Sobre el Mar, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2000

The Wild Shores of Patagonia, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2000

"Andean Dawn”

This image was taken at dawn inmid-winter in Patagonia. It was my third trip to photograph this mystical volcano that had so far always been shrouded in clouds. The ground was frozen solid and it was painful just to stand on it, the fog was too thick to see anything. I was about to give up, when I suddenly saw the tip of the mountain appear ever so slightly. In slow motion it became more and more visible, like an island in the mist, it was a magical - silent - a moment of contemplation and beauty.

LOCATION

(Lanin volcano, Neuquen Province, Northwest Patagonia)

“End of the Andes”

Jasmine Rossi was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to an Italian father and German mother. She grew up in Italy, Spain and Germany and holds a master’s degree from London University.

Since 2000 she resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina  - close to her favourite “canvas”, the gigantic ice-fields of southern Patagonia, a region on which she has published three photo books. 

Rossi’s Patagonia series covers a decade of work in a place so remote that it is known as “the uttermost part of the earth”.  Her images were projected at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, at the National Arts Club in New York, and the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires. A series of solo-exhibitions of her photographs followed in Argentina between 2000 and 2014. From 2013 to 2016 they were shown in Switzerland, Germany and in an exhibit at the Vatican. Her studio is nature in its rawest form and her subjects are created by wind, water and time: a primeval world of thousand-year old holy trees, gigantic glaciers and ethereal deserts …  

ARTINVESTOR magazine

“The world, as it has been for millennia, is changing, and Rossi has chosen photography as a medium to stir our conscience, and make us reflect on the dire question of the future of our planet. 

Her images are historical snapshots, conscious compositions created with a sense of urgency, aware that she is up against a race with time… “                                  

PUBLICATIONS

The Spirit of the North, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2008

Las Cuatro Estaciones de la Patagonia, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2005

The Spirit of Patagonia, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2002

La Patagonia Sobre el Mar, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2000

The Wild Shores of Patagonia, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2000

“End of the Andes”

‘This image was taken after surviving a two week long storm in an anchorage close to Cape Horn. It is here where the Atlantic and the Pacific meet with some of the worst weather conditions on earth. Depicted here is not a calm lake, but the Beagle Channel and Darwin’s cordlillera  - where the Andes fall abruptly into the ocean. When I was taking this photograph I was just glad to still be alive and in peace after such a terrible storm’.

LOCATION

(Beagle Channel, Tierra del Fuego)

“Solitude”

Jasmine Rossi was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to an Italian father and German mother. She grew up in Italy, Spain and Germany and holds a master’s degree from London University.

Since 2000 she resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina  - close to her favourite “canvas”, the gigantic ice-fields of southern Patagonia, a region on which she has published three photo books. 

Rossi’s Patagonia series covers a decade of work in a place so remote that it is known as “the uttermost part of the earth”.  Her images were projected at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, at the National Arts Club in New York, and the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires. A series of solo-exhibitions of her photographs followed in Argentina between 2000 and 2014. From 2013 to 2016 they were shown in Switzerland, Germany and in an exhibit at the Vatican. Her studio is nature in its rawest form and her subjects are created by wind, water and time: a primeval world of thousand-year old holy trees, gigantic glaciers and ethereal deserts …  

ARTINVESTOR magazine

“The world, as it has been for millennia, is changing, and Rossi has chosen photography as a medium to stir our conscience, and make us reflect on the dire question of the future of our planet. 

Her images are historical snapshots, conscious compositions created with a sense of urgency, aware that she is up against a race with time… “                                  

PUBLICATIONS

The Spirit of the North, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2008

Las Cuatro Estaciones de la Patagonia, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2005

The Spirit of Patagonia, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2002

La Patagonia Sobre el Mar, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2000

The Wild Shores of Patagonia, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2000

“Solitude”

´This is not a small tree, but a tall thousand year old monkey-puzzle tree, buried deep in winter snows, atop the Batea Mahuida volcano in the Andes. The snow was so deep that I fell into and was unable to move, I had to be pulled out by two men. I managed to take just this shot before I and my camera were buried’.

LOCATION

(Araucaria Tree in snowstorm, Northwest Patagonia)

“Apocalypse”

Jasmine Rossi was born in Lausanne, Switzerland to an Italian father and German mother. She grew up in Italy, Spain and Germany and holds a master’s degree from London University.

Since 2000 she resides in Buenos Aires, Argentina  - close to her favourite “canvas”, the gigantic ice-fields of southern Patagonia, a region on which she has published three photo books. 

Rossi’s Patagonia series covers a decade of work in a place so remote that it is known as “the uttermost part of the earth”.  Her images were projected at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, at the National Arts Club in New York, and the Museum of Latin American Art in Buenos Aires. A series of solo-exhibitions of her photographs followed in Argentina between 2000 and 2014. From 2013 to 2016 they were shown in Switzerland, Germany and in an exhibit at the Vatican. Her studio is nature in its rawest form and her subjects are created by wind, water and time: a primeval world of thousand-year old holy trees, gigantic glaciers and ethereal deserts …  

ARTINVESTOR magazine

“The world, as it has been for millennia, is changing, and Rossi has chosen photography as a medium to stir our conscience, and make us reflect on the dire question of the future of our planet. 

Her images are historical snapshots, conscious compositions created with a sense of urgency, aware that she is up against a race with time… “                                  

PUBLICATIONS

The Spirit of the North, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2008

Las Cuatro Estaciones de la Patagonia, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2005

The Spirit of Patagonia, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2002

La Patagonia Sobre el Mar, Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2000

The Wild Shores of Patagonia, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2000

“Apocalypse”

‘This image was taken when I spent Christmas with Doug and Kris Tompkins, a week after they had bought the Monte Leon ranch (from Patagonia’s pioneering Braun family) to turn it into a national park.  They are the largest land-philanthropists in Chile and Argentina; sadly Doug died in a kayak accident in Patagonia in 2015, and Kris continues their exemplary cause. The photo was taken at sunset on Christmas day and these are the poplars behind the main house, suddenly everyone rushed out of the house and stood there mesmerized. A storm had passed and what looks like fire are just the clouds illuminated by the last rays of light. Like many of my shots it is a matter of a minute or even seconds to capture the right shot’. 

LOCATION

(Sunset in Monte Leon National Park, Santa Cruz Province, Southern Patagonia)