Born in 1954 in Lisbon, Tiago Ribeiro de Carvalho spent his childhood in Angola and Portugal and studied in the Netherlands and Belgium.
In 1976 he began a long career in finance with a first job in Saudi Arabia. He returns to Europe at the end of 1978, moves to Den Haag in the Netherlands, and later, in 1980 to Paris.
In 1984 he moves to Nice for family reasons and continues his career with frequent trips all over Europe, the African and American continents as well as extended periods in Milan (4 years), Paris (2 years) and will spend the last three years of his professional career in Rome.
His interest in photography began very early when he was offered his first camera at the age of 10.
Despite a busy schedule, he will always had a camera with him and took the time to visit and photograph the cities he was visiting
And since he is also passionate about painting, he always found the time to visit a museum or an exhibition; the lessons of the old masters is second to none, and sometimes an hour in front of a painting teaches you more about human nature than hours of professional meetings...
Naturally, once his professional activities have been reduced, he can indulge in his lifelong passion: architectural and urban landscape photography.
Every building that Tiago Ribeiro de Carvalho photographs, he considers it as model, to which it is necessary to bring out "character" and "inner life" just like a simple human.
Although his taste for colour initially made her very present in his work, he has adopted Black and White these last years. He believes that he finds in monochrome a much greater freedom to bring out the soul of the buildings he photographs.
"Colors are beautiful; they are necessary for me in my daily life.
However, they create a particular perception to each observer; you will react differently in front of blues, reds or yellows, all these colors have a very strong cultural and social identification. They automatically lead you to an oriented interpretation of what you see.
With White & Black, or to tell the truth, with the countless shades of gray, you free yourself from all social meanings attributed to colours and free to look for details, textures, shapes, volumes and shadows that otherwise would be drowned in the color palette
But I do not forget that every shade of gray that I record with my camera, it corresponds to a very particular color." 
Today, his photographic work on architecture is oriented towards a totally stripped-down view of buildings, so as to extract the quintessence of their souls.
And since you always have to go back to the old masters, he is also working on a still life project with dry flowers... in color! 

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