Riccardo de Vecchi

film - fotografie - documentair

Riccardo De Vecchi is a photographer and filmmaker with an architectural background based in Rotterdam, NL and Italy. Since obtaining a Master in Architecture at the Technical University of Delft (NL) in 2015, he focuses on developing a multi-disciplinary approach towards design and visual communication based on the mutual relation between the two practices. His photographic work is based on a deep understanding of the object / process / project to be represented. As a result, each work has a specific outcome rather than a fixed style repeated in time. This way of working represents the desire to explore and to keep pushing the personal boundaries expressed through photography, a desire driven by a genuine curiosity towards this medium and towards every new discovery unveiled by the process of representation. He currently works as an independent photographer, collaborating with architecture and design firms, artists and public institutions as well as pursuing his personal projects.


Who’s Ugly Now? - Who’s Ugly Now is a visual essay by architectural photographer Riccardo De Vecchi. The project aims to document Rotterdam's underground creative culture on one side, and the city's latest architecture developments on the other as two parallel narrative lines, to finally intertwine them exploring the resulting contact points. By doing so, the project aims to question the city making as business as usual, specifically in the context of Rotterdam where new and existing have the potential to coexist and suggest innovative urban, social and architectural strategies.
Supervalley - Supervalley is a collaborative research carried by urban and landscape designer Filippo LaFleur (phD Politecnico di Milano, Land Architecture) and photographer Riccardo De Vecchi. It aims to explore and visualise the Po valley surrounding the city of Milan (IT) and study new strategies for the re-naturalisation of the area towards a sustainable and efficient farming. Photographer Riccardo De Vecchi's role is to document the existing environment by producing a visual essay that encapsules those elements that are close or strikes away from the proposed scenario by the research.
Atlas Van Verbeelding - In 2017 three municipalities – Schijndel, Sint-Oedenrode, and Veghel consisting of thirteen villages where merged into the new city of Meierijstad. It is located in Brabant near the Eindhoven Metropolitan Area.⁣ ⁣ In order to discover the identity of this new city, a Board of Imagination was initiated under the chairmanship of architect and former Bouwmeester Architect Floris Alkemade. This council – consisting of people with a strong bond with the municipality – has devised scenarios for the future. Led by Office CCXD | Cédric Van Parys these scenarios have been imagined, visualized and assembled into an Atlas of Imagination.⁣ ⁣ For this project, the landscape was photographically deconstructed, and documented into a series of directives for the future. Through the eyes of photographer Riccardo de Vecchi, with the imagination of artist Cédric van Parys and designed by graphic designer Lu Liang, you look at vast landscapes, agriculture, industry, logistics, entrepreneurship and, innovation. But just a little different than usual.⁣
Casa Paisagem - "Casa Paisagem is a project about inhabiting open space, to see landscape as an open house and establish a sense of place and intimacy within a public territory. Inhabiting is often linked to an interior space, disconnected from the environment and protected from it. Architecture becomes a tool for marking the earth, separating inside from outside, safe from unpredictable, but can we think about alternative visions joining domesticity with openness? Is it time to start intimate relationships with landscape, considering it a place of life? How to inhabit landscape? The project has been documented, by taking part of it, by photographer Riccardo De Vecchi.
Büyükada Songlines - Riccardo De Vecchi was commissioned by Studio Ossidiana to document the exhibition "Büyükada Songlines" during the architectural biennal of Istanbul (2021), approaching the commission as a traveller documenting his own trip. This resulted in a series of images and shorts movie clips. Büyükada Songlines is a floating garden populated by plants, soil, insects and birds traveling across the Marmara sea, as a floating embassy of the Prince’s Islands archipelago. Both a design project and a journey, the garden will host people and other animals, events and conversations, becoming a nomadic pavilion populated by the life and the stories of the archipelago.
Object,Landscape - Object_Landscape is an ongoing photographic series exploring the concept of scale in both built and natural environment. The scale of given "objects", part of the observed context, stands out giving the image a surreal mood, almost as the photo was a collage. On the contrary, the human being becomes so small when seen in vast landscape, empathising the natural element as the real subject of the scene, and not the background.