Ridha is a self-taught photographer who started experimenting with old cameras in 2008. Since then, he has focused his interest in the so-called street photography, namely in black and white. He won two national photography awards, one held by Canon-Fotografer.net (2012) and the other one was Bingkai Jakarta held by National Geographic Indonesia and Universitas Indonesia (2010).

Ridha Aditya Nugraha believes in a saying "one photo, thousands stories".