Andy Ridder

Andy Ridder is a photographer based in Cádiz/Spain.
After completing his studies at the Academy for Photographic Design in Munich, Andy Ridder worked as assistant in Stuttgart, Munich and Paris. Following that, he performed jobs for leading magazines and companies in Germany and abroad.

Andy Ridder uses partly dichromatic black-and-white photos in contrasting shades, created as free works, as a counterpoint to his commercial color photography. The locations are places in which human and space, in the interplay of light and shadow, are quite abandoned to the atmosphere and to the spontaneity of the moment. This can lead to unplanned enactments, as in the series in a Jazz Club published in “Stern” and “max”, in whose independent existences Andy Ridder intervenes as little as possible to control or manipulate. So a more subtle, hidden type of eroticism emerges, always just hinted at, which never ostensibly or even platitudinously pushes the viewer. The eroticism does try to involve the viewer, but it must be gradually discovered by them. This leaves just enough room for personal interpretation. “Stern” magazine writes: “Stuttgart-based photographer Andy Ridder’s pictures demonstrate subtly hidden eroticism to a high level. The dark ...

Academy for Photographic Design in Munich

2025 Galleria Tolomeo - Milano, Italy
2024 The Crypt Gallery - London, United Kingdom
2024 Art Fair Innsbruck - Innsbruck, Austria
2024 Galleria Europa - Versilia, Toskana, Italy
2024 Galerie Hamilton CANNES, Côte d'Azur, France
2024 Momenti D’arte - Firenze, Italy
2024 Arte E Collezionismo - Florenz, Italy
2023 The Crypt Gallery - London, United Kingdom
2023 Art Symposium 2023 - Firenze, Italy
2023 Galleria Tolomeo - Milano, Italy
2023 Visionario - Galleria Merlino - Florenz, Italy
2023 On Tour Cannes - Galerie Hamilton - CANNES, Côte d'Azur, France
2013 Triptychon "Zeitwischer" Stuttgart, Germany