Rikard Larma was born in Zavidovići, a small town in central Bosnia, on 2 April in 1954. He graduated from the High School of photography and since then he has been working, learning, creating, promoting and living photography his whole life. His first teacher was his father Leopold, then as a photography expert he improved his skills at photography courses in the upper grades of an elementary school in Sarajevo. Rikard has been a professional photojournalist since he was 20 years old, beginning his career in Sarajevo in 1974. He was working in different editions of the newspaper Oslobođenje from Sarajevo, Sportske novine, Večernje novine, Ven, Svijet, As, Orbis, Arka, San and several other prominent magazines in Bosnia and Herzegovina. When war came to his hometown of Sarajevo in 1992, Rikard swiftly evolved from a general news and feature photographer to war photojournalist. He worked as staff photographer for the Associated Press, covering the Siege of Sarajevo and the war’s aftermath from 1992 to 1997. When the war ended, he married, moved to Jerusalem and began to raise a family. He lived and worked there for six years, photographing the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In 2003, he settled down in the United States and began working for Metro Philadelphia newspaper in 2004. Rikard started photographing ‘Painting with Light’ artwork in 2008 while working as staff photographer and photo editor for the daily newspaper.
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