Ricardo Sousa Nunes is a photographer working between Portugal and Spain. His commissioned work is centred on the fashion and design industries, with clients including Farfetch (Thom Browne, Emillio Pucci, Roberto Cavalli), Slou Lisbon (A.P.C., Comme des Garçons, Margaret Howell), Tiffosi, Alan Crocetti and L’Objet. His personal work has been shown at MU.SA – Museu das Artes de Sintra (Sintra), Fábrica Features Gallery (Lisbon), Arquivo Municipal de Fotografia de Lisboa (Lisbon), Casa das Histórias Paula Rego (Cascais), and Arquipélago – Centro de Artes (São Miguel, Azores).
Lundgren+Lindqvist designed and developed Ricardo Sousa’s website, where typography and imagery are tightly interwoven. Type is set according to an underlying system that centres text horizontally and vertically within image areas. What first appears as free-form composition is, in fact, based on a precise structure that allows the photographic material to dictate the design.
Following this principle, the landing page presents all project titles and corresponding number of images, with a full-bleed image revealed behind the text on hover. Selecting a category (Commissions, Still Life, Editorial, or Personal) leads to a grid view of the respective projects, where the interaction is reversed—hovering displays the project title and image count.
Numbers play an integral role throughout the website. Down to the favicon, which updates in real time to display the current number of uploaded projects, the numerical concept is carried through to the smallest detail. On the project page, as users click through the gallery, a number indicates the current image, and its vertical position shifts according to the image’s height on the page, adding another layer of dynamism to the experience.
