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.