Marco Muñoz Jaramillo

“I’m not really a photographer. I’m a painter with a camera.” In fact, he did begin his career as a painter and developed an interest in photography after studying the process of early photographers and their impact on art history. Jaramillo sees photography as a mathematical hybrid of science and art. He is fascinated with the process and enjoys working with people as his subjects. Recently he has been exploring possible connections between painting and photography. He works with a diverse array of photographic processes, ranging from pinhole cameras with paper negatives to professional high-tech digital equipment. Sometimes he alters the paper negative by drawing directly on it with a graphite pencil. The project catalogue includes his photographs documenting the installation process of the show and his “pinhole artists’ portraits.” Jaramillo skillfully engages each artist, grasping the interaction between photographer and subject, capturing unique moments in time.
Marco Muñoz Jaramillo was born in 1957 in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and moved with his family to Washington Heights, spending much of his childhood in New York City during the tumultuous 1960s. Jaramillo received a scholarship from the Arts Student League in New
York, studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Newark School of Fine and Industrial Arts, and he later majored in art history at Kean College. Jaramillo currently works as an art educator at Elizabeth High School. He has shown his work in many institutions, including the Latin American Art Museum in Washington, DC, and the Brazilian Cultural Center in Sao Paulo, Brazil.