ricardo scipio

Trinidad-born Ricardo Scipio has spent over forty years creating bold, multi-layered work across film and photography that is as provocative as it is deeply human.

His three feature films chart an uncompromising artistic vision. When was a brutally funny and raw portrait of struggling actresses in New York. Watershed made history as the first independent feature film in North America shot in digital high-definition. Finder of Lost Children, set within the Caribbean community of Canada, is a poignant and humorous story of two half-sisters meeting for the first time at the funeral of a father neither of them knew.

As a photographer, Scipio has built an equally remarkable body of work. He began as a fashion photographer before turning to fine art nude photography, presenting his work in fourteen gallery shows. His first book, a celebrated collaboration with noted Canadian poet George Elliott Clarke, was published in 2005. Since then he has completed ten more books — including The Goddess Project series, Uzuri (a book of nudes of Black women), The Sex Goddess Project series, and most recently The Intimacy Project — with the latest volumes still in progress.

Scipio grew up in Toronto and studied at both the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design and the University of Waterloo. He makes his home in Vancouver, Canada.