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Sable Island People: Roberto Dutesco, Photographer(September 2008) |
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Matt Trecartin (director/cameraman) of Arcadia shoots Roberto Dutesco as he photographs waves breaking over the east tip of Sable Island, early October 2007. |
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Roberto Dutesco, a New York based photographer working in art, fashion, and film, has received much acclaim for his photoworks featuring the Sable horses. Roberto’s fashion photography has been published regularly in magazines such as Details, GQ, Interview, Vanity Fair, and Vogue. Arts reviewer and editor Sarah Valdez wrote, “For decades, editors have relied on his ability to capture the most striking aspects of a model, a piece of fabric, or environment. His reliably sleek, clean, dramatic esthetic has consistently had the edge to sustain a career in the oft-cutthroat world of fashion”.
Born in Bucharest, Romania, Roberto studied painting, drawing and sculpture at the National School of Arts in Bucharest. His family moved to Canada in 1981, and he studied for a degree at the Dawson Institute of Photography in Montreal. He opened his first studio in 1987, and two years later he shot his first cover for Elle magazine, and soon became one of Canada's most accomplished fashion photographers.
After moving to New York in 1995, Roberto, compelled by his enthusiasm for travel and discovery, visited over fifty countries, seeking to capture with photography the beauty and emotional essence of each location. These experiences left him with a passion for "One World", the place where we live, the place we share. For Roberto “home” has a plural sense. He explains that “home is a place where even after you have left, you still exist, it is a place where you look forward to return, it is a place that helps you become”. With memories and family connections Bucharest, Montreal, New York City, and São Paulo are his homes. But so are many other places that have touched him and shaped his perspective. Roberto thinks of Sable Island as home.
While travelling in the mid-1990s, Roberto began developing three major art projects: The American SandScape, Rocks & Things, and The Wild Horses of Sable Island. His first visit to Sable Island was in summer 1994, followed by another in 1997.
The photographic studies he made during these early visits to Sable Island have been exhibited in some impressive venues. In 2002 (commencing “the Year of the Horse"), Roberto was invited to display The Horses of Sable Island at the Sony Style windows in both New York City and Chicago, and in 2003, A World Without Borders: The Wild Horses of Sable Island was presented in a show hosted by the French Cultural Association at the United Nations. Roberto’s main exhibit—The Wild Horses of Sable Island—is on permanent view at the Dutesco Gallery in Soho.
During 2007, Roberto returned to Sable Island with a series of three visits between July and early October. He was accompanied by personnel with Arcadia Entertainment, a Halifax-based television production company. During a total of about six weeks of shooting on Sable (as well as some in New York City), Arcadia produced a documentary about Roberto, his photography, and his special relationship with Sable Island—Chasing Wild Horses. While this program and Roberto’s photographic studies of 2007 could represent the culmination of a powerful body of work, Roberto does not feel “done” with the island. He says, “There is not a single day that I do not talk about it. I am mostly at the beginning and if allowed sometime in the future I would like to go again with a different mind set. I look at these pictures and learn from them every day. I look at the film Chasing Wild Horses and my 16 mm black-&-white footage, and think how I would do it all again—not the same, but all again. For example I would love to spend a whole day with the band of black horses on the west of the island. I only had one hour with them, and barely had the time to say hello”.
Chasing Wild Horses premiered on Bravo! April 6, 2008. During autumn 2008, Chasing Wild Horses will be screened at the Atlantic Film Festival in Halifax (September 20), the New York Independent Film and Video Festival (September 25), and the Planet in Focus Film Fest in Toronto (late October). Note: Chasing Wild Horses should not be confused with the ludicrous Sable Island drama titled Touching Wild Horses.
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Relevant Links:
Dutesco Gallery
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