Acacia#1, East Sahara, 2018 2018

This picture is part of the project “Nightscapes”: long exposures made during the night with the full moon, and using led lights for the light painting. The pictures are taken from real and not made in digital post production. This particular image was taken in the desert of Sahara, and it shows an acacia tree. This is a tree that could resist the hard conditions of the desert; it is strong and its bark is extremely hard.

Giant’s Causeway and figure, Northern Ireland, 2018 2018

This picture is part of the project “Nightscapes”: long exposures made during the night with the full moon, and using led lights for the light painting. The pictures are taken from real and not made in digital post production. This particular image was taken in Northern Ireland, and it is a part of the north coast: the Giant’s Causeway. The Giant’s Causeway is an area of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns, the result of an ancient volcanic fissure eruption. The tops of the columns form stepping stones that lead from the cliff foot and disappear under the sea.

Temple of Selinunte#5, Sicilia, 2017 2017

This picture is part of the project “Nightscapes”: long exposures made during the night with the full moon, and using led lights for the light painting. The pictures are taken from real and not made in digital post production. This particular image was taken in Sicily, at the Temple of Selinunte. This was an ancient Greek city on the south-western coast of Sicily in Italy. There, only the Temple of Hera, also known as “Temple E”, has been re-erected.

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Ugo Ricciardi

Italy

http://www.ugoricciardi.it/art/

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.
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 Rome with ADA Art Advisor.
In Munich with the Ingo Seufert Gallery for Contemporary Photography.