Photographs by Jorge Landívar Ugarte from the Province of Imbabura and a trip made to Otavalo by María Angélica Idrobo, Zoila Ugarte and her Students in 1936

Abstract

This publication contains a selection of thirty-five photographs by Jorge Landívar Ugarte, an Ecuadorian photographer who produced research and knowledge in the history, geography and border situation of Ecuador in the mid-twentieth century. These images, are the visual testimony of the trip to the province of Imbabura, in 1936, by two teachers - María Angélica Idrobo and Zoila Ugarte - with a group of boarding school students of the Fernández Madrid Institute from Quito, and gather the experience of the trip both portraying these women as well as recording scenarios, people, and activities from that time. In the photographs you can see reproductions of emblematic  places of the city of Otavalo such as the Central Park, symbolic place of local power, the great animal market, the scene of intense commercial exchanges, the Church of El Jordán with its priests and parishioners. At the same time, the photographs show the teachers and students from the Quito institution in several locations on the periphery of the city where the family home of one of the renowned teachers, María Angélica Idrobo,¹ seems to have been located.