Ramiro Aguilar Villamarín is a documentary photographer based in Quito, Ecuador. Since 2018 he has been a member of the Asociación de Fotografos Ecuatorianos (AFE) and a collaborator of EverydayAmazon, part of EverydayProjects. And in 2020 he received a scholarship from the VII Academy for the South and Central America: Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Seminar. His work has focused on culture, memory, social movements, indigenous peoples and human rights in Ecuador.
He has worked as photojournalist for independent digital media and as videographer for the national newspaper El Comercio. Between 2019 and 2021 he collaborated with the UNHCR office in Ecuador covering several assignments. Between 2021 and 2023 he joined the International Organization for Migration, IOM, office in Ecuador as audiovisual assistant. And since 2023 he has worked as a remote Multimedia Editor for the Audiovisual Team at IOM’s Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland.
His work and approach to image and audiovisual, both in form and content, is based on strict humanitarian ethical principles. He seeks to make evident the value or revalue the human groups who portraits, opposing any victimizing or discriminatory treatment nor approach. His position is critical towards the traditional representations of gender and minorities, excluded, racialized or marginalized groups. His aim is to use photography as a medium and tool for social change and justice.
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