Views on Château Lafite Rothschild - 1995

Jorge Damonte spent his childhood between Montevideo and Paris, where his family lived in exile after fleeing the military dictatorship. Culture and art were the passion of this family. He started taking pictures with an old Polaroid at the age of 10. He later worked alongside journalist Jaime Giralt Font, and by the age of 26 he became a great professional photographer.

“Baron Eric de Rothschild and Daniel Vignat sought him out in his panoramic period...”

In 1974, he settled permanently in Paris. He did photography for the theatre, and later worked for Yves Saint Laurent. He exhibited for the first time in Paris in 1984. During the last twenty years he decided he would no longer take photographs for commercial purposes, to leave absolute freedom to his art.