I am not great with words. I am a visual person and a straight shooter aka talker and not a fan of descriptions or bio's things that alienate many artists like me who aren't wordsmiths. So we will keep it short and sweet.
So I was on a self-funded photography trip in Ghana and was up to Kumasi with a friend who used to be in partnership with his college friend running a handmade shoe empire. Between the banter and the afrobeats playlist on full basalt, he asked if I wanted to pass by and see what the bespoke shoe trade of Ghana was all about, the “drip”, I said “hell yeah” and here we are!
Rico is not your fine-art educated type; there's no waffle and no literary enigma machines like dictionaries or thesauruses required to decode him. Yes, he will drop the occasional f-bomb.
He is all visual, direct in speech, has a partial filter, and, if we're being honest, he is not keen on writing 'captions,' 'artist statements,' 'descriptions,' or 'bios.' These are the very things that tend to alienate many artists like himself, who aren’t silver-tongued wordsmiths with too much to say.
So, we will keep it short and sweet: Rico takes photos.
The End!
