Shortly after, Sebastian “confiscated” his first camera, an old Yashica he found on his father’s desk and along with a basic photography class his mother got him was ready to hit the road.
Third generation of cinematographers —although completely by chance, cinematography was at the time a family “habit” more than a tradition—, along the years the Argentinean studied Photography Direction and Architecture. The latter gave him a unique approach to the composition of images, an ability to deconstruct the reality in layers of light and volume, portraying the different faces of a subject and narrating the intention and expectation that lay beyond every instant. Strongly influenced by Kubrick’s expressionist use of light, and magic realist Jorge Luis Borges’ capacity to make the impossible seem possible by the utilization of the right language, Demarco soon understood photography’s endless expressive possibilities.
During the 90s the photographer met his mentor Javier Perez and started to experiment with movement, as his career expanded towards videography and Photography Direction. It marked the first milestone in a life of swinging from unearthing dinosaurs’ bones in Mexico one week to work with Carolina Herrera in New York the next. The beginning of the adventure, still in the making 20 years later.
By this time, aware of his passion for Borges, Argentine writer Alejandro Horowicz asked Sebastian to shoot Buenos Aires from the point of view of his favorite writer, knowing already what that choice would be… And set the start for what was the most fulfilling experience in Sebastian’s artistic life.
The result of that invitation is “Uqbar, Borges, Buenos Aires” a singular and desolated vision in black and white of the city in which Borges grew up.
Years later, already living in the US, and out of his nostalgia for “the city”, this work got merged with the years studying architecture and evolved into “Mythic deconstruction of Buenos Aires” inspired in the short tale “The Immortal”, by JLB, of course.
His passion for adventure didn’t always get him into the right place…
After “Mythic deconstruction” Sebastian decided to go back to basics and move into a sailboat, without electricity or running water, anchored off the coast in Biscayne Bay. The experience got cut short before a year when a combination of hurricanes Charley and Frances sank it, almost with him on board.
In 2013 his passion for knowledge got him in a solo around the world.
“The world through my window” is that experience’s offspring.
Within the last decade, moved for a short period of time to a mystic town in Mexico’s mountains and relocated once again to Miami, where he has performed comercial work for such companies as E! Entertainment, Microsoft, Ferrari, Warner Channel and Yahoo!, also collaborating with most renowned major film studios, working with stars such as Cameron Diaz, Tom Cruise, Hugh Jackman, Robert Rodriguez and Eva Longoria and many others.
In 2020 covid brought a new period of creation in the most unexpected directions, after years of working as underwater photographer he decided to use that tool to create underwater moments of people on “daily” activities and attire and, the most important of all, he became a father.
Currently, he splits his time between Miami and Washington D.C., always on the lookout for his next adventure, his father’s Yashica still by his side…