ABOUT US
RICCARDO RICCIO
Riccardo Riccio, a renown Brazilian-Italian photographer, shares through Seeds and Tales that, "seeds have been a timeless form of currency among humans since ancient times. Seeds carry the beginning of life, and the history of its people".
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With Seeds and Tales, he portrays the captivating beauty and historical legacy of endangered indigenous seeds in Brazil and South America. Through ultramacro photography, each fine art print achieves unparalleled contrast, intricate details, and breathtaking sharpness.
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This remarkable project unites Riccardo's two passions - Photography and Nature. With every picture, he constructs a bridge between nature's wonders and the viewer, inviting you to embark on a captivating journey through the enchanting world of Seeds and Tales.
THE PHOTOGRAPHER
TROVÃO TROPICAL
Trovão Tropical is an agroecological lifestyle company based in Rio de Janeiro that carries out and manages socio-environmental projects. They guide their initiatives by the desire for genuine food sovereignty and freedom in both rural and urban environments.
For this, they employ syntropic agroforestry planting techniques combined with native stingless beekeeping. An exceptional synergy is created with this method, one which is capable of boosting abundance – while regenerating degraded soils and recovering springs, they promote horizontal and integrated relationships with our planet's natural processes.
Their organization is plural and acts as an incubator of ideas, with initiatives in the areas of audiovisual, editorial, documentary, adventure sports and cultural production.
THE CONCEPT
Mirna Wabi-Sabi is a non-fiction writer and the founder of the Plataforma9 initiative, which focuses on innovation in multilingual digital communication, publication, and education. She oversees the publishing of bilingual pocket books, articles of political analysis, photo-journalistic series, and a media literacy course. Plataforma9's mission is to utilize narrative to spark constructive shifts in our troubled society.
Seeds and Tales delivers a stunningly constructive shift in perspective, by transmitting the focus of the audience towards something so valuable yet often overlooked, the seed. As a writer and editor, Mirna contextualized the ancient tale which orbits each of these subjects.