Gino Ricardo – Exploring Architectural Photography

Gino Ricardo is a motion designer and self-taught architecture and street photographer from the land of clogs, cheese, tulips, and windmills, also known as the Netherlands.

- By Gino Ricardo

He bought his first camera (Panasonic GH5) in 2019 to film his trip to South Africa.

But unfortunately, after his trip to South Africa, his camera sat on a shelf, collecting dust for almost a year.

At the beginning of 2020, Gino decided to bring his camera to work on a daily basis and started photographing during his 1-hour lunch break. At first, he wanted to start with street photography shooting images like Alan Schaller and Fan Ho, to name a few. However, he quickly discovered that this was not only very difficult but also very intimidating. Photographing people in the streets required a different kind of skill.

When Gino was out one day, he looked up at a building and found its forms, shapes, pattern, and the way that the light was hitting it very interesting, and from then on, he started his photography journey chasing the skyscrapers in the concrete jungle of Rotterdam and abroad.

During his 1-hour lunch breaks, he would go into the city and photograph its buildings. All in black and white. When he got more comfortable with architecture photography and the camera, he started to work on his street photography skills and later would mix both genres together in his own way. By incorporating people into his architectural photography, his work got more substance. Showing scale, dimension, and life. When hitting the streets of Rotterdam or abroad, he doesn't think about projects but rather about capturing what he finds exciting and what captures his eyes and would like to hang on the wall. In short moments. This keeps the work loose and fun. Photography for him is primarily therapeutic, a way to relax, think and escape into his own world. Not to mention getting 10k steps a day.