From architecture to music, directing and production, Portuguese photographer Ricardo Oliveira Alves worked in several different creative industries before combining his two biggest passions and starting his own architectural photography studio, Ricardo Oliveira Alves Architectural Photography, in 2010.

Tree Snake Houses / Luís Rebelo de Andrade + Tiago Rebelo de Andrade. Image © Ricardo Oliveira Alves

From architecture to music, directing and production, Portuguese photographer Ricardo Oliveira Alves worked in several different creative industries before combining his two biggest passions and starting his own architectural photography studio, Ricardo Oliveira Alves Architectural Photography, in 2010.Alves captures emblematic national architecture projects in addition to work by prominent architects worldwide, ?fusing the vision of the architect? with that of the photographer. He is also known for his ?Archilapse? videos, which feature timelapse montages of architectural works.Read an interview with Alves and view a selection of his images after the break. 
1. When and how did you start photographing architecture"I started photographing early, around 14 years old?. ?As I started studying architecture, I also started working at several architectural studios, and shooting the studio projects? and? exhibitions was one of my work responsibilities??, so my relationship with architectura...