As a child, Riikka’s father took an exceptional amount of photographs. When she was a teen ager, photography began to interst her as well. At home there was a darkroom in the depths of which she spent countless hours. Later she studied in Tampere and soon after she became an influential photographer for the A magazines. Riikka spent 15 years working for magazines after which she resigned in order to found her own business in 2015.