Photojournalist since 1982, has worked for newspapers as Rosario and Clarín; at several Agencies as Diarios y Noticias (DyN), Télam and on special covers for AFP and Reuter’s as well as for the weekly Viva (Sunday’s magazine of Clarín), Noticias (Perfil Publishing Group) and Gente of the Atlántida’s Publishing Group.
Nowadays he’s an independent photojournalist. He conceives and produces his own photo interviews and investigative theme articles for important local and international media like El País, Spain and for the Deutsche Presse Agentur DPA.
Ricardo Ceppi is settled in Buenos Aires, Argentina and is available to produce photo interviews covering a wide area in Latin America.
He was the photo-editor of the magazine Noticias and revamped the photography department of the Rosario newspaper La Capital updating their digital systems and training their photographic staff.
Many of his images can be seen at the newspapers Los Ángeles Times (USA), El País and El Mundo (Madrid, Spain), Svenska Dagalbladt (Sweden), Kyrkpressen (Finland) Some photographies were published at the magazines El País Semanal [EPs] (Spain), Newsweek (USA), Luna Cornea (México) News (Austria), Humboldt (Germany) Pays Basque (Toulouse, France) and special document images about health for WHO – World Health Organization (Geneva). Also issued at agencies like Reuter’s, AFP y Associated Press, AP.
Some photographies were published at the following books: Argentines, end of the millennium portraits, Bs. As, Argentina, 1999, and The Watched over Democracy, Argentine photographers. Rio de Luz Collection. Mexico DF, 1988, between others.
He did photojournalistic covers at Latin-American, Antarctic as well as at the United States, Europe, Egypt, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa.
During 2006 and 2007 he was the image photographer of Jorge Telerman, Buenos Aires city’s mayor and was one of the team members of his election campaign.
As independent photographic editor he selected and compiled images for the book: Boca Jrs, the centennial book”, (1905-2005), as well as for the Touristic Installments about Argentina for the Planeta Publishing Group. He edited the images of the book 20 years of democracy, (1983-2003) for the “Conciencia” NGO and La Mujer y la Fotografía whose author is Alejandra Niedermaier (Leviatán).
He also researched extensively and acted as photographic compiler and curator of a historical document found at the street named “Lupanar: Photographies of an Argentine brothel” (circa 1940). This document was fully analyzed with the Gender Studies Department from the Buenos Aires University.
He thought courses in Photojournalism and in Ethics and Deontology as part of the career of Professional Photographer at the Motivarte School of Buenos Aires and at The Swarthmore Program in Buenos Aires (SPBA). Nowadays he gives private workshops.
Buenos Aires, January 2009.
