Sunday, October 30, 2011

Recent Photo Features for Nona Brooklyn

All images © Valery Rizzo

I shoot a monthly photo feature for a great Brooklyn website called Nona Brooklyn, which is all about good food in Brooklyn and the people behind it. To keep you up to date here are some recent features I have shot for Nona in the past few months...


Dekalb Market...full feature click here


Added Value...full feature click here


Tenth Acre Farms...full feature click here


Brooklyn : West Indian Day Carnival


Wanted, West Indian Day Carnival, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 2011.

All images © Valery Rizzo

I had two objectives, one to eat some great home cooked West Indian food and two to get the photograph I did not get last year which was an image of some of these groups of kids that go around wearing bandanas covering their faces, sort of like bandits or thugs. One day I will find out why they do it and I don't want to make the wrong assumptions, but I know they do it so as not to be recognized. Anyway next year I should photograph J'overt, and the kids covered in powder and paint. J'overt is a pre-dawn street party the night/dawn before carnival where people take to the streets playing calypso and soca, dancing and masqueraders wear oil, mud, powder and paint. Although there is always a sense of risk at the Carnival due to shootings, it is still one of the most culturally interesting events in Brooklyn.