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Location | Monaco |
Prints issue | LIMITED EDITION 30 prints ONLY |
Shooting date | June 29th, 2012 |
Original picture | Digital |
Original picture | Digital |
Formats | Large format |
Era | 2010-2020 |
Colors | Brown |
I was born into a family that brought the first automobiles to market at the beginning of the last century. For as long as I can remember, I have always heard about motorsport at home and automobiles in the broad sense.
My passion for modes of transport on land also led me to develop a passion for boats during the many school holidays that I spent in Brittany. After my military service in the Navy I began learning how to make sails for large racing multihulls and the last 12MJIs in the America's Cup at the end of the 1980s.
Back in the Paris region, I will join the DPPI press agency created by my father in 1962 where I will learn the basics of photography and business during the first 3 years.
Through a combination of circumstances I will create, develop and manage what will become 10 years later the most important structure for marketing boat photos within a photographic press agency.
At the beginning of this century I will restore several old automobiles, including one of the most emblematic single-seaters in French motorsport that had launched Matra Sport in a quest for victories for 10 years.
After this interlude I returned to my job as a photographer to produce subjects on automobile heritage and motorboats.
In 2012 Riva celebrates 50 Years of Aquarama in the port of Monaco under the leadership of Lia Riva, daughter of Carlo Riva. He created the unique line of Italian runabouts known worldwide for their construction quality which will delight the Jet Set from 60s to today.