Photographer's Profile
Ugo Ricciardi
Ugo Ricciardi, Italy
Ugo Ricciardi, born in 1975, is a Swiss-Italian photographer. He lives and works in Turin. After two masters in fashion photography at the Kaverdash School in Milan, he started working as a photographer in the photojournalism agency La Presse. Between the 1998 and 2003 he worked as an assistant for the photographer Giuseppe Pino and for many professionals in Superstudio Industria, Milan. In 2004 he started working as a professional in Turin and had many collaborations with famous national brands like Mondadori, Roncato, Disaronno, Lisap. The same year he had his first exhibition at Photoikon in Turin with the series “Angeli di Pietra”. Between 2008 and 2012 he was lecturer in portrait photography at Ph Libero, and in 2012 he opened a new studio for professionals. In 2015 he started the project “Nightscapes”, that is on going, exhibited in many fairs and art galleries in Italy and Europe. In Turin with Burning Giraffe Art Gallery. In MIlan with Podbielski Contemporary. In Munich with the Ingo Seufert Gallery for Contemporary Photography.
