Ricardo Franco was born in Alentejo, Portugal, in August 1980. He learned the art of photography by himself. Focused more on street photography, on capturing pure and hard reality, but always in a poetic way, he manages to capture the essence of the characters he photographs and, above all, the moments he eternalizes. He prefers to work in an environment where images are worth more than a thousand words. Between 2003 and 2004 he lived in Guinea-Bissau, documenting his work as a volunteer teacher in the interior of the country. Back in Portugal he worked in schools and underprivileged neighbourhoods, where he started to awaken his interest for the documentary. In 2007 he moved to Macau, where he began to ally his career as a teacher with photojournalist, reporting in several Asian countries. In 2009 he moved to Mozambique, a country he adopted . It was there that he decided to abandon his teaching to dedicate himself to photography. In recent years, in addition to continuing to collaborate with the press, he extended his experience to institutional communication and social responsibility projects in South Africa, Nigeria, Angola, Swaziland, Congo Brazzaville, Ghana and Mozambique.