About

Italian born photographer Willy Rizzo (1928-2013) began his career in the golden age of photojournalism and went on to become famed for his memorable and iconic portraits of celebrity.
He took his first photographs at the early age of 12 when his family were living in Paris. As a teenager, during the Nazi occupation of the city, Rizzo bought his first Rolliflex camera on the black market. This camera and his natural talent led to a job as a reporter and him traveling to Tunisia to photograph harrowing scenes of burnt out tanks on the battlefields. Rizzo then went on to cover the Nuremberg …