Emmanuel Ortiz

• Doma, Criollo horse training
• Pato, at play
• Yerra, working livestock

Emmanuel Ortiz offers :

• > Signed prints.
• > Information about exhibitions.
• > Reports about your horses, your own set-up, or about the equestrian activities which you organise and practice.
• > Portraits of your horses or stories about your horse-breeding.

Emmanuel Ortiz at Tropoja in northern Albania on the frontier with Kosovo. While the world's attention was concentrated on the « World 98 », war was starting in Kosovo…

Doma, Criollo horse training

Report with photographs by Emmanuel Ortiz
Extract from the exhibition « Man and Horse ».

Emmanuel Ortiz was born in Argentina in 1961. He took his first photographs in 1982. In 1984 Emmanuel returned to Latin America as a photo-journalist.

For five years, it was Peru, Bolivia, Chile and Argentina, the discovery of another world which had been his own. « Photography is fantastic, it’s a pretext to get closer to everything, » says Emmanuel. « Photography teaches one to see with a cheeky insouciance. It teaches one to experience with one’s own eyes the violence of a world which one cannot seize, » he also says.

In 1989, back in Europe, Emmanuel Ortiz started a work on the artist squats, which he did until 1994. In August 1991 he went to Croatia – it was the beginning of the Balkan war which, in the eyes of the press and writers, was just a simple skirmish. Then there was Bosnia, Macedonia, Albania and Kosovo in 1999. A book was published in 1996, and then the photographer hung his reports on the walls of several exhibitions. In 2000, a life of adventure took him on a journey to Thailand where, wandering around Bangkok and across the north of the country, he photographed instinctively and with no other goal but that of discovery. In Burma he met the guerrillas Shan and Karen.

Back in France during the year 2001, he moved to Normandy in 2005. Today Emmanuel Ortiz went back to riding before returning to Argentina where he started a work on horse and man.

The first part of this photographic work is presented here, its theme : the traditional training of a Criollo horse – of course.