Valery Rizzo is a photographer based in Brooklyn, New York, where she was born and raised. She works on commercial and editorial assignments in food, travel, lifestyle and portrait photography, with a special interest in urban lifestyle and agriculture. She has a B.F.A. from Pratt Institute. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of the City of New York and the Brooklyn Navy Yard Archives.
Her book Wonderland: Brooklyn 2007-2023 was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2025. It has 128 pages. It brings together sixteen years of photographs of Brooklyn, made with plastic Holga cameras on medium-format film. The book has a linen cover and a tipped-in photo. In 2021 the Wonderland project was a finalist in the Urban Book Awards.
She also co-edited and was the principal photographer of Urban Farmers: The Now (and How) of Growing Food in the City, published by gestalten in 2021. Her work has been shown at the Museum of the City of New York, Photoville and powerHouse Arena.
