Quito, Ecuador
$300 - $800 / Day
Request QuoteI am Ramiro Aguilar Villamarín (Quito, Ecuador – 1985), visual anthropologist, social communicator and journalist, specialized in video and photography. Since 2014 I have worked as a videographer, photographer and reporter for national media and Hispanic-American digital portals, summing up numerous published works. By 2020 I am about to complete my master’s degree in research in visual anthropology where I have developed debates and works (written, photographic and audiovisual) on photography, cinema, memory, history, cultures, indigenous peoples and Amazonia. In addition to these topics, in my work I have approached the struggle of workers, social movements, human rights and migrations. My work and approach to the field of image and audiovisual, both in form and content, is based on strict humanitarian ethical principles. I seek to make evident the value or re-value the cases or human groups that I portrait, opposing any victimizing or discriminatory treatment nor approach. As well, I position myself critically on the traditional representations of minorities, excluded or marginalized groups. I am currently available for assignments mainly in the documentary field.
Produced for UNHCR
We asked Venezuelans what they wish they could have brought with them on their trip. His responses are a teaching of life. This is one of the many challenges facing millions of refugees and migrants worldwide. / Freelance videography for the UNHCR office at Ecuador.
This is my videography reel highlighting the work I did between 2014 and 2016 for the website of El Comercio, a main national newspaper of Ecuador.
Editorial photography for the Swiss NGO Public Eye about the banana plantations on Ecuador and the work conditions on them.
Portraying someone’s absence implies collecting their fingerprints, both those that remain in matter and those that live in the feelings of who still remembers them. We did this with Gabriela Toro Aguilar, a journalist colleague, when we took on the challenge of profiling Vanessa Landínez Ortega, an Ecuadorian woman who in 2013, with 37 years old, was found dead in a hotel in her hometown Ambato.
Up close, immersed in interactions, sounds, smells and tastes, we go from being observers to being involved. Even from afar we contemplate the spaces, the sky, its atmosphere: the landscape that builds the here and now. We have retraced our steps to recognize the path of our gaze. It is the Navarro Park, the place where the famous "tripas" (typical dish) are sold in La Floresta neighborhood (Quito, Ecuador). Observational video made for the Chair of Qualitative Methods. Prof: Elisenda Ardévol Research Master in Visual Anthropology 2017-2019. Flacso - Ecuador.
In the limits of the historic center of Quito there is a space where dozens of young people cultivate the art of break dance. This dance, one of the four pillars of the Hip Hop movement and culture, has found a hotbed in the capital of Ecuador, the Community School of Break Dance: CumanBreak. / Sample of the work I did between 2017 - 2018 for the news portal HispanoPost.
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