Ramón Ruiz Sampaio

Main roster photographer

Extract from ‘De’Simone’ as part of a daily life long term project
Extract from ‘Armando’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease
World Cultures and Heritage feature
Extract from ‘Milton’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease
Extract from ‘Eslyn and Milton’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease
Extract from ‘Juan’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease
General News – Coverage of Current Affairs in Mexico
Extract from ‘Juan’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease
Extract from ‘Juan’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease
General News – Coverage of Protests in Mexico City
Extract from ‘Maria Luisa’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease
Extract from ‘Maria Luisa’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease
General News – The Occupy Wall Street protest
Extract from ‘Agustìn’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease
Extract from ‘Agustìn’ as part of a long term project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease

Ramón Ruiz Sampaio is a documentary photographer born in Mexico City, 1985. He studied philosophy and later photography at the Active School of Photography in México City.

In 2011 he moved to New York where he attended the program Photojournalism and Documentary Photography at the International Center of Photography ( ICP ). There he received the Directors Grant, and the Rita K. Hillman award for his performance in the program.

He is currently working as a documentary photographer on his project involving patients and caregivers in the context of Parkinson’s disease.

He was awarded a Hillman Foundation Fellowship prize in 2013 to support the continuation of the Parkinson documentation project in México. He is a recipient Fellow of the Mexican Fund for the Arts, and also won honorable mention at Foto Visura.

Sampaio has participated in several solo and group exhibitions in Mexico and abroad, in Brazil, Canada, USA and China where he received an award for best international photographer in the international festival of Pingyao.

He currently lives and works in Mexico City on long-term documentary projects.