Uruguayan photographer captures free-spirited gauchos

Fabini's photos investigate the intimate world of gauchos and horses, the animal of great importance as both a life companion and workmate, as well as their relationship with land.

Fabini says land is for him that "very strong link" with what he is doing as a photographer.

"All my work is about land, just as the gaucho is the man who looks at the land from a horse, from a bit higher.

"It was not just a search outside, it was more a search within that I had. It was through gauchos that I found my voice."

In his snapshots, Fabini tries to convey something "that can't be tamed" and something "to be kept pure". He says, when he takes photos, he is not documenting anything, instead, he is living the moment and making his viewers feel present, as deeply as he can.

"Finding art in these people's daily life deserves that I, as a photographer, open a portal so that people from different realities can see what is going on there.

"I do not aim to tell a story, the story tells itself in the end."