All images © Valery Rizzo
Been shooting Brooklyn chocolate makers, Mast Brothers, Cacao Prieto and Raaka for Nona Brooklyn in the past couple of weeks. Working this weekend on getting the chocolate feature ready for monday...
Saturday, February 11, 2012
Friday, February 3, 2012
Brooklyn Book Project : Chinese New Year
All images © Valery Rizzo
Chinese New Year Celebration, Sunset Park, Brooklyn, 2012.
Monday, January 30, 2012
Brooklyn Book Project : Building 92, Brooklyn Navy Yard
Gallery view, Building 92, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 2012.
Cafe view, Building 92, Brooklyn Navy Yard, 2012.
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Brooklyn Book Project : Polar Bear Swim
Polar bears, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 2012.
Polar Bear Swim, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 2011.
Polar Bear Swim, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 2012.
Still contemplating on whether to add horizontal shots to my Brooklyn Book project or keep them all square...?
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
2011, A Year in Review
I used to send out a newsletter to keep everyone up to date on work, publishings and exhibitions, but in 2011 I established two blogs which is enough to keep up with and still leave time for shooting. Besides this blog, Valery Rizzo Photographer, a place for updates on assignments, personal projects, publishings and exhibitions I also created Eating Brooklyn, a food photography blog, to explore my interest in food photography and styling as well as expand on my focus of Brooklyn.
Eating Brooklyn provided many opportunities for me. It was chosen as a finalist for Saveur Magazine's 2011 Best Food Blog Awards, Best Original Savory Recipe and was featured on Blogs.com as one of the 10 Best Food Blogs About Places and I was asked to author the list. It also provided me with assignment work such as a monthly photo feature for Brooklyn Food Website Nona Brooklyn about Local, artisanal and sustainably produced food in Brooklyn and the people behind it. I was hired to photograph restaurants, such as iCi in Fort Greene, I shot a food story with Family Records recording artist Rosi Golan and I was even given an MTA, Arts for Transit Exhibition from it, called "Grown in Brooklyn" and features urban agriculture in Brooklyn.
This year however I am hoping this is the blog to watch so please subscribe or follow as I would like to focus more on my assignments, personal work and most importantly my Brooklyn Book Project. I am entering the fifth year of working on it and my goal is to make 2012 the year I finish all the work and work on getting it published in 2013. Book jacket design and introduction are planned by Magnum photographer Claudio Edinger.
Wanted, West Indian Day Carnival, Crown Heights, Brooklyn, 2011.
Polar bear swim, Coney Island, Brooklyn, 2010.
Book jacket design © Claudio Edinger
Photographs from my Brooklyn Book project were published in several books. Play! A Collection of Sixty-three Toy Camera Photographs Made by Thirty-six Photographers in Twelve Countries (benefiting Toys for Tots), PDN's PHOTOBOOK NYC, Toycam, Lo-Fi Photography and 13th International Krappy Kamera Exhibition.
I was one of the many food photographers (Polaroids included) featured with case studies in the great Lara Ferroni's new Food Photography and Styling Book.
I continue to shoot stock for Getty Images and Alamy and publications from those agencies last year included: Marie Claire India, Canadian Living, Parenting Magazine, Hearst Communications, Hearst Digital Media, Tribune Company, Time Inc., Microsoft Multimedia Publishing, Disney Publishing, Irish Times, Washington Post, WebMD Corp, The Daily News, ABC.com and numerous various others.
Below are the links to the Photo Features I shot this year for Nona Brooklyn. I actually get to mix some of my Holga shooting into these stories. The first two features (last two in list) are completely shot with Holga.
I was featured and interviewed by Toycamera.com and Great Food Photos
Exhibitions of 2011 Included:
MTA, Arts For Transit, Grown in Brooklyn by Photographer Valery Rizzo, at The Atlantic Avenue Terminal
FINCH & ADA Autumn Exhibition, A Decade of Photography in the Aftermath of 9/11, curated by Ruben Natal-San Miguel
The 13th International Krappy Kamera Exhibition at Soho Photo, NYC
Brooklyn to Bloomsbury, Bloomsbury teamed up with the New York Photo Festival to exhibit some of their favorites from the Capture Brooklyn Exhibition at the Powerhouse Arena, Bloomsbury Lanes, London, UK
Online Exhibitions included:
591 Photography Blog: Children's Days
Brooklyn - Valery Rizzo (part two)
Lenscratch: Summer Exhibition
Over all 2011 was a great year and I hope 2012 will be even better.
Monday, December 5, 2011
Play! A Collection of Sixty-three Toy Camera Photographs
Play! A Collection of Sixty-three Toy Camera Photographs Made by Thirty-six Photographers in Twelve Countries has been published by CWIP (Composing With Images Press) and two of my photographs from my Brooklyn Book Project are included on pages 38 and 39.
It is an international effort with100% of the proceeds will go to the Marine Toys for Tots Foundation to benefit children affected by areas in the United States ravaged by tornadoes in 2011.
The cover features “Selah” by Lori Bell.
The book includes:
63 Photographs and reflections
taken on 30 different toy and homemade cameras
by 36 photographers
from 12 countries
on 5 continents
Right now there are two versions of the book online, both at 7x7 size:
The Standard version with high quality acid free paper, cover, and end sheets: $42.95.
The ProLine version, which has ungraded linen covers, upgraded end sheets, and Pearl photo paper: $70.95
You can also view a preview of the entire book for a limited time, click here or purchase here.
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.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
The Naked Beekeeper
Naked Beekeeper, Bedford Styvesant, Brooklyn, 2011.
Photo © Valery Rizzo
Michael Hegedus, aka Michael Beaman, aka The Naked Beekeeper, is founder of The Beekeepers Association and Three Sisters Honey made from his six hives in Bed-Sty Brooklyn. Why Naked you ask?...to show how safe it is to work around honeybees, if your careful and gentle the bees will leave you alone.
Three Sisters Honey can be found at Choice Greene in Fort Greene, Lucy's Whey at Chelsea Market and at the Brooklyn Victory Garden in Clinton Hill. Every jar of organically produced honey is adorned with the sweetest labels, each handmade by Michael's three young daughters.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011
Food Scene at Rockaway Beach
This month I went out to Rockaway Beach to shoot my latest photo feature for Nona Brooklyn about the new food scene out there, and although the beach is technically in Queens many of the vendors or chefs are from Brooklyn. It was so much fun, surfers and all! To see the full feature click here.
All images © Valery Rizzo
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