Luisa Lima

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I was born in Porto, Portugal in 1981, in a family whose equestrian tradition was confined to my great-grandfather, poet and rider, whom I never met. I think that I was born with this fascination for the horse, since I can't really recall not having it. For years, it was a platonic love, since a doctor forbid me to ride and my obsession was translated in horse drawings in all styles: from comics and caricatures to the more realistic portrait. When I was 14, I changed doctors and I had my first physical contact with the world of the horse. It was then that the desire to capture this animal in the more intimate format of photography was born, and I traded the distance from the pencil and the paper by the proximity of the lens. I started photographing, first, in exchange for riding lessons; later, I became a photojournalist and editorial consultant for the portuguese equestrian magazine Equisport, published several photographs and articles in Portuguese, American, Russian and British horse magazines; in 2011, I organized, in collaboration with Rita Fernandes and Maria Joí£o Salbany, the Lusitanos on Focus workshop, which brought to Portugal photographers from 20 countries to photograph my favorite horse breed the Lusitano. Our baroque horse, the Lusitano, is nowadays, the living inheritance of the renaissance equitation, in which it finds its place to shine. I believe, like Master Nuno Oliveira, that the horse is already a work of art, an unfinished canvas where the rider, day by day, retouches the work with the goal of attaining the perfection of the form, of the movement and of the union with the rider. I believe that being a classical equitation rider gives me the intuition to anticipate some of the moves of the horse, and many times, the shutter click is more instinctive than rational. Those who know the Lusitano horse know that its pose and the expression of its eyes constantly express emotions, which range from sufferer to warlike. What I intend to capture in my image of the Lusitano is precisely the contours of this ephemeral work of art created by the rider, as well as this intrinsic emotion of the Lusitano horse. That is why my favorite means of expression is black and white photography. In real life, I live in Porto, Portugal, I am a university professor and entrepreneur, and I own a Lusitano horse named Vodka Lima.
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