Award winning photographer / Immersive Storyteller specialized in #environmental + #culturalheritage issues / National Geographic Explorer 2019 / Creating #virtualreality ecosystems / Based in South America.   

Whether in the Arctic documenting the Caribou people dealing with climate change, or following traditional Peruvian dancers living in the favellas of Lima, Villaume listens to the concerns of the locals and his work is characteristic of their voices–capturing images that document their daily lives. He works with various international NGO’s and cultural institutions including UNESCO, and his work has been published in international magazines such as Mother Jones, The Week, Boston Globe, Grands Reportages, National Geographic Newswatch, Americas Quarterly and several South American medias…

Villaume’s work reflects his strong commitment and sensitivity to human relationships with nature, using a powerful combination of images, sounds and immersive storytelling technics. He travels the world with cameras and microphones looking for unexpected encounters with people we normally cannot reach, and then shares the emotional impact of these conversations with everyone through his work. Russia, China, Mongolia, and Laos are countries which have deeply influenced him. But it is especially with the South American people that he has developed strong links over time. He now lives between Lima and Paris.

Deeply concerned with both the richness and fragility of biocultural diversity, he has created the French association Conversations du Monde. Funded in 2004, this organization started with producing a major multimedia exhibition at the UNESCO head offices in Paris, promoting Quechua’s deep oral tradition and culture, using the emotional power of combined digital arts: photography, videos, recordings and Internet. Since then Conversations du Monde has developed more than 40 venues around the world, from well known museums to very remote communities places, spreading the voices on environmental issues and solutions.