Mónica Aguilar Villamarín / Saokma is a photographic designer based in Quito (1983). Graduated by the Metropolitan Institute of Design in 2005, she has received several courses in advertising, multimedia design, web design, including a scholarship granted by the Government of India in 2013. She has been working since 2003 in commercial photography, graphic design, publishing, web and communication for several national and international companies.

Member of the Ecuadorian Photographers Association, she recently obtained a Diploma in Art Photography from the NODE Center, Berlin, and she is currently working on her latest photographic project: Samayuio, The Spirit of Quito’s River.

To take a look at her artistic work in photography, please visit: saokma.com

Email her at contacto@saokmadesign.com

Motivation and philosophy

Time, pause and memory are closely related. Nothing dies in the universe; everything is part of a continuous cycle without beginning nor end. Everything is continually changing.

I practice photography as an extension of my meditation practice. I believe in the light because it does not lie. You can look at the photographer’s soul in every picture. The act of stopping and collecting time by recording every movement and causing these temporary overlaps is vital to my search.

Sometimes I feel that my motivation as an artist does not come from my mind but from a deeper voice that I call: Saokma. She is my intuition in its purest state, my guide.

Photography becomes the way to connect with the universe in an endless cycle with the sole objective of learning. Stop the time to analyze it, revive it and finally, raise awareness to avoid dying at all.