"...one can tell how much Jasmine Rossi loves her subject. Her stunning photographs ... are much more than pretty pictures. Rossi's (work) shows that successful photographers need both passion and persistence".
Russell Hart, Editor in Chief American Photo Magazine
Jasmine Rossi was born in 1966 in Lausanne, Sw… Read More
"...one can tell how much Jasmine Rossi loves her subject. Her stunning photographs ... are much more than pretty pictures. Rossi's (work) shows that successful photographers need both passion and persistence".
Russell Hart, Editor in Chief American Photo Magazine
Jasmine Rossi was born in 1966 in Lausanne, Switzerland, to an Italian father and a German mother. She grew up in Spain, Germany and Italy.
In 1994 Jasmine, then a journalist in London, travelled through South-America. She was so taken by the stunning beauty of the continent's little known wildernesses – in particular by the immense, vast, and wild southern tip known as Patagonia, that she wanted to show the wonders she was seeing to the world, and began taking thousands of photos. Soon she found herself completely immersed into the subject of photography.
In 1995 Jasmine went to live for two years in a little ranger station on the windswept shores of the Valdes peninsula – a giant nature reserve in Argentine Patagonia, far away from all civilization. This experience culminated in her first photo book "The Wild Shores of Patagonia" (Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2000).
Jasmine's next goal was to portray Patagonia in its entirety, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from stormy Cape Horn to the snow-capped volcanoes of the North. She sailed through the Magellan Strait, the Beagle channel and the Chilean Fjords, and rode and drove over 16,000 kilometres across the heart of Patagonia. These images illustrate the pages of her second book "The Spirit of Patagonia" (Ediciones Larivière, Buenos Aires, 2003).
After the launch of The Spirit of Patagonia Jasmine found herself invited to participate in a number of exhibitions in Argentina, on subjects ranging from the Mapuche Indians to the giant glaciers of the South. In January of 2005, Jasmine published her 3rd photo book, “Las Cuatro Estaciones de la Patagonia” (Ediciones Larivière).
Jasmine is presently working on a series of five books on Argentina’s different eco-regions: in 2008 she completed “The Spirit of the North” a book on Argentina’s historic northeastern provinces, that depicts the customs and traditions of its inhabitants and the incredible desert landscapes of the puna - a high altitude mountain plateau between Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. This will be followed by “The Spirit of the Andes” (on the Cuyo region), the “Spirit of the Pampas”, and “The Spirit of Mesopotamia” which is currently in production. Read Less
