Valery Rizzo
Photographer
Brooklyn, New York
+1 917-531-0131
vrizzo@valeryrizzo.com
www.valeryrizzo.com
Education
B.F.A Pratt Institute, Communication Design, Illustration
Pratt Manhattan, Photography, Web Design and Computer Graphics
School of Visual arts, Photography Courses
International Center of Photography, Photography courses and Workshops
Residencies
Bldg 92, Visiting Artist, The Brooklyn Navy Yard
Juror
Photography, Capital Region Media Arts Festival, 2022
Food Photography, IACP Food Awards 2019
Books
Urban Farmers, The Now (and How) of Growing Food in the City, gestalten, 2021
Exhibitions
2022 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA
2021 Trieste Photo Festival, Photo Days Fringe Exhibition, Hop & Rock, Trieste, Italy
2021 Trieste Photo Festival, Photo Days Fringe Exhibition, Trieste Airport, Trieste, Italy
2020 New York Responds, Museum of the City of New York, NYC
2020 100 Visions of Motherhood, The Luupe.com
2018 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Nave Gallery, Somerville MA
2018 20th International Krappy Kamera Exhibition, Soho Photo, NYC (Awarded Honorable Mention)
2018 Let There Be Light (and Shadow), Umbrella Arts, New York, NY
2016 WeAmericans, Station Independent Projects, New York, NY
2016 New York Harbor Foundation Education Center, Billion Oyster Project, Governors Island, NYC
2016 9th Annual International Juried Plastic Camera Show, Rayko Photo Center, SF, CA
2015 EVERY NOW + THEN, Steuben Galleries, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn Campus, NY
2014 What is a Portrait, Ripe Gallery, Huntington, New York
2014 Brooklyn Synergies, United Photo Industries, Lodz Fotofestiwal, Poland and Photoville, Bklyn, NY
2014 Somerville Toy Camera Festival, Washington Street Art, Somerville MA
2013 Mobile Magic, Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Oregon
2013 Exploring Brooklyn, United Photo Industries, Dumbo, Brooklyn, NY
2012 [Dot] Com Exhibit, Looking at Ourselves: Portraits Featured on Lenscratch, Guate Photo Festival, Guatemala
2012 International Awards Competition Exhibit, FotoWeek Central, FotoWeekDC, Washington DC
2012 Arts for Transit, Atlantic Terminal Lightboxes, Grown in Brooklyn, work focused on Brooklyn’s Urban Agriculture
2012 Small Works Competition, Soho Photo, Juror Karen Marks, Director Howard Greenberg Gallery
2011 Autumn Exhibition, Finch & Ada, New York, NY
2011 13th International Krappy Kamera Exhibition, Soho Photo, NYC (Awarded People's Choice)
2010 Capture Brooklyn Exhibition, powerHouse Arena, Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2005 ASMP Fine Art Group Exhibition, Thomas Werner Gallery, New York. NY
2005 Peeled Eye Exhibition, AOP Gallery, London, UK
Awards
2021 Finalist Urban Book Award / Wonderland, Urban Photo Awards, Trieste Italy
2018 Honorable Mention, 20th International Krappy Kamera Exhibition, Soho Photo, NYC
2015 Eddy Award Nominee / Finalist, Best Cover, Edible Monterey Bay
2013 Honorable Mention, Mi Brooklyn Postcard Competition, United Photo Industries
2012 Visiting Artist Residency, Bldg 92 Visiting Artist Program
2012 Honorable Mention, International Awards Competition, FotoWeekDC
2011 People’s Choice Award, 13th International Krappy Kamera Exhibition
2011 Finalist Best Food Blog Award / Eating Brooklyn, Saveur Magazine
2010 Winner, PDN’s PHOTOBOOK NYC
2010 First Place Winner , “Creatures” category, Holgapalooza competition, Light Leaks Magazine
Press
July 2022, Bacsac Journal, Interview / Urban Farmers
June 2020, Museum of the City of New York, Curators from the Couch
July 2020, Shutterstock blog, Photographing Today’s Youth: Young People and Protests
December 2019, Shutterstock blog, Photographic Activism, Interview
December 2016, Fine Dining Lovers, Interview / Featured Photographer / Eye on Urban Farming
April 2016, PDN Photo of The Day, Featured Photographer, Looking for the Soul of Brooklyn Through a Plastic Lens
April 2015, Photographer's Quarterly, Featured Photographer
April 2015, Lonny Magazine, Easy-Small Space Vegetable Gardening Tips, Interview/Featured Photos
July 2013, Street Photographer Magazine, Featured Photographer
August 2013 FRONT & MAIN, West Elm Blog / Featured Photographer
August 2011 Great Food Photos, Interview/Featured Photographer
June 2011 ToyCamera.com, Interview/Featured Photographer
July 2010 Lomography Magazine, Top 10 interview with the photographer series
June 2010 In Orbit New New York, Interview/Featured Photographer
March/April 2010 American PHOTO Magazine, Flickr Showcase
January 2009 Lenscratch, Interview/Featured Photographer
Contributor
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Archives
James Beard Nominated Nona Brooklyn
Offset / Shutterstock
Getty Images
Adobe Premium Stock
Alamy
Kintzing
Publications and Clients
T The New York Times Style Magazine
D La Repubblica
Der Spiegel
Harper’s Magazine
Forbes
The New Yorker
Bloomberg Pursuits
Departures
CultureTrip
EatingWell Magazine
Yes! Magazine
Serious Eats
Vice Munchies / Italy
TASTE Cooking
Chicago Tribune Magazine
Interior Design Magazine
American PHOTO Magazine
Télérama Magazine
Food & Wine (cookbook)
Delta Sky Magazine
binspired Magazine / Brussels Airlines
Sunset Magazine
Booking.com
Zillow / Small Screen Networks
Bookmark Content / Hudson Yards
Bio Designed
Let it Grow (Floriculture book)
Bon Appétit
Modern Farmer
Rakesprogress Vol 11 + 12
Flaunt Magazine
The Times (UK)
Scientific America
What Katie Ate at The Weekend + Chopping Bored (cookbook)
Gestalten (book- Urban Farmers)
Gestalten (book - Craft Spirits and Liqueurs + FarmLife)
Discovery Channel/Planet Green
The New York Times Lens Blog
Ogilvy & Mather (Germany)
Hearst Communications
Agence France-Presse (AFP)
Euro RSCGC&O
Tapas Magazine
Marie Claire Magazine
bthere Magazine / Brussels Airlines inflight magazine
Edible Manhattan
Edible Brooklyn
Edible Monterey Bay
Edible Maine
Nona Brooklyn
Kinfolk Magazine
The Coastal Table
Sweet Paul Magazine
Chickpea Vegan Quarterly
Life & Thyme
The Weekender Magazine (Germany)
More Magazine
NPR
Time Inc.
PDN’s PHOTOBOOK NYC (book)
Toycam / Lo-fi Photography (book)
Play/A collection of toy camera photographs by 63 photographers (book)
F-Stop Magazine-The Portrait Issue
Square Magazine
Canadian Living
Parenting Magazine
Organic Gardening Magazine
Bauer Media
NBC Universal Digital–Bravo
The Washington Post
The Chicago Tribune
The Irish Times
Vogue
Glamour
The Daily News
The NY Post
ABC News
WebMD
iCi Restaurant
La Balena
Noelia Ricci
Light Leaks Magazine
Burn Magazine
Lomography Magazine
Moje Psychologie
Grist
Lohas Magazine
Photographer's Quarterly
Whiskey Advocate