Rico Scagliola (born 1985 in Uster) and Michael Meier (born 1982 in Chur) live and work in Zurich. They studied photography at the University of the Arts in Zurich from 2006 to 2010 and began collaborating as a team in 2008. Since then Rico Scagliola & Michael Meier have worked on commissions such as Migros Geschäftsbericht 2008, projects for Das Magazin, of the Zurich paper Tages Anzeiger, and presented their photo series in the art magazines If You're Into It, We're Out of It and der:die:das. They are primarily interested in creating “portraits of manners,” exploring social groups and their imagery consciousness.