Ukiyo #3

Ugo Ricciardi was born in Turin, where he currently lives and works. After a Master in Fashion Photography at Kaverdash School in Milan, he started his career as a photographer by working as Giuseppe Pino's assistant at La Press Agency. Between 1998 and 2003, he works as assistant of Fabrizio Ferri at Stuperstudio Industria, where he collaborates with international professionals such as Andreas Bitesnich and Bruno Bisang. Back in Turin, in 2004, he mainly focused on fashion photography and advertising, by collaborating with important international brands (Roncato, Mondadori, Keramine H, Lisap) and publishing within different magazines, like Institute Magazine, Officiel Indonesia e Cosmopolitan. Between 2008 and 2012, he became professor of portrait at Ph Libero in Turin. In 2005, he inaugurated his first solo exhibition, "Angeli di pietra", in Turin and Treviso. In 2007, he joined the collective show of artworks by the painter Enrico Colombotto Rosso. In 2014, he joined the Collective "Un Certain Regard", in collaboration with the stylist Walter Dang. In 2015, he exhibited for the first time at Burning Giraffe Art Gallery,