All Photos © Valery Rizzo
Some recent photographs from assignments and projects I have been working on lately.
New York Food Book Fair for Eating Brooklyn and Kinfolk Magazine.
More photos for iCi Restaurant Fort Greene.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Good Friday Procession Carroll Gardens
All images © Valery Rizzo
While shooting my recent monthly photo feature for Nona Brooklyn, an Old-school Italian story, (about some of the generations-old Italian restaurants, bakeries and Italian specialty shops in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Carroll Gardens) which you can see here, I heard about the procession performed on Good Friday. I have only seen processions in Italy and the fact that it happens right here in Brooklyn as well, I found truly interesting.
Brooklyn's oldest Italian parish, Scared Hearts - St. Stephens Church process through the streets of Carroll Gardens marking the Holyday of Good Friday. Traditional Italian hymns, an Italian funeral band, processing men, women and children re-inact the last steps of Christ to his tomb, by candlelight. More information about the procession can be found here.
The first shot will be part of my Brooklyn book which you can see more of here.
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Bike Kill
All images © Valery Rizzo
Bike Kill is an annual festival of homemade bicycles in Bushwick, Brooklyn and features bike jousting, debauchery and destruction. People from different bike gangs ride back and forth up and down the same Dead-end street in Brooklyn on their creations, performing daredevil stunts, sometimes wearing costumes, throwing food and playing loud punk music, and of course there is also drinking involved.
Monday, March 12, 2012
Sneak Peek...Nona Brooklyn April Feature, Old-school Italian: Carroll Gardens
All images © Valery Rizzo
A sneak peek at my next story I am working on for Nona Brooklyn. A photo feature which celebrates the Old-school Italian food establishments and culture of the historical neighborhood of Carroll Gardens. Some places have been there for over 100 years. Look for it in April...
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Exhibitions and Recent Features
This month I had two photographs published in F-Stop Magazine's Portrait Issue.
Photo © Valery Rizzo
I had some work featured on 591 Photography : Toy Camera Days.
Photo © Valery Rizzo
There is still one more week to see a polaroid I have included in an exhibition at Soho Photo in Tribeca. Juror, Karen Marks, Exhibitions Director at The Howard Greenberg Gallery, NYC.
February 8 - March 6, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday February 9, 6pm
15 White Street, New York, NY, 10013
212.226.8571
Gallery Hours: Wednesday thru Sunday, 1 - 6pm
All Images © Valery Rizzo
My Last two photo features for Nona Brooklyn:
January: Don Paco Lopez Panaderia in Sunset Park.
See full feature here...
February: The Golden Ticket : An Inside Look at Brooklyn's Bean-to-Bar Chocolate Factories.
See full feature here...
Wednesday, February 15, 2012
Brooklyn Book Project : Records & Tapes
Records & Tapes, Park Slope, Brooklyn, 2012.
Photo © Valery Rizzo
I often wonder how this guy stays open, surely one day he will be gone, but I am glad he is still here. Places like these remind us of the past and are the character of a neighborhood.
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