My name is Diana Troya, I am an interdisciplinary professional focused on the margins of natural/social sciences, art, and activisms. In my work I engage with intersectionality, decolonial, and critical feminist studies to address social-environmental struggles, conservation, and climate justice.  I did a bachelor in Biological Sciences, an specialization in Environmental Communication and an M. A. in Visual and Media Anthropology. 

I am interested in creating material and subjective spaces for public participation, thus promote dialogues and actions for an inclusive and integral environmental conservation that include in the equation the diversity of human and non-humans coexisting in the territories. 

I am sure that imagination is important to generate the new narratives needed in order to impact society and trigger actions for change. I consider of great importance to engage critically with the binary division  of nature and culture, and rather thinking in a Naturecultural World.

This exhibition is a journey of more than 300 images from 6 different Waorani communities within Yasuní Biosphere Reserve. WAO MIMO represents more than 50 indigenous photographers and 4 professional photographers from the United States, Spain and Ecuador, in a joint effort to tell the story of the Waorani.

The work produced by these indigenous photographers is unprecedented material that portrays their lives from an intimate perspective, their daily way of life in the Amazon jungle. Their current challenges consist of balancing their traditions with the introduction of technology and globalization to their communities: environmental conservation with the use of new hunting and fishing tools; the songs of their grandparents with American top hits; and clothes made of tree bark with cotton imports.

Can you imagine how this process has been captured in images? Through its native and western photojournalists, WAO MIMO has turned this idea into a reality. These Waorani communities have shared their story with you.