Home
  • Film
  • Photo
  • Writing
  • About
  • Blog
  • rr-logo small

    Menu

    • Home
    • Film
    • Photo
    • About

    Search Results:

    blue header

    Riding Square

    Here’s an end of Summer loosie I never got around to posting. The whine of dirt bikes in the distance is something I associate with Brooklyn. I still haven’t captured the photo I want of the dudes screaming past but this one’ll do for now.

    photo • Oct 31 2017


    blue header

    Friends Framed

    Recent portraits of architect Alex Meyers and filmmaker Tanuj Chopra.

    photo • Jul 30 2017


    blue header

    Back in the City

    These photographs were all shot from behind the subjects. Three of them are backlit. In the film The Harder They Come a character uses the exclamation, “[B]ackside!” to express surprise at seeing Jimmy Cliff’s character Ivan, a fuguitive, hanging out in a photo studio. He says it once again to close the scene. “Backside!” I’ve […]

    photo street • Jun 28 2017


    blue header

    Summer Streets

    Seen around town these past couple weeks.

    photo • Jun 18 2017


    blue header

    Bus Double

    I saw this frame while on a location scout for an unrelated project. One of those shots that you can’t wait to return home to see if it’s in focus.

    photo • May 15 2017


    blue header

    Downtown BK Slash

    Downtown BK bay-bay. #brooklynlove A post shared by raafi rivero (@raafirivero) on Mar 9, 2017 at 1:31pm PST

    photo • Mar 9 2017


    blue header

    Blue Basket

    A post shared by raafi rivero (@raafirivero) on Feb 13, 2017 at 3:35pm PST

    photo • Feb 15 2017


    blue header

    Snow and Squares

    brooklyn photo snow • Feb 10 2017


    blue header

    All Island

    A recent film project took me all over the city — and the boroughs. These shots were caught in between. All happen to have been captured in Manhattan. The last two happen to have been captured a half-block apart.

    photo • Oct 5 2015


    blue header

    New Lenses, New Attitude

    Well, maybe not the attitude. But in testing out the new Leicas, there’s been some learning. The lenses have much less distortion, and so are less forgiving to a shooter who rarely holds the camera perfectly level. Enhanced clarity in communication happens, in part, through this sort of technical clarity. One hopes. And if not, […]

    photo • Jun 8 2015


    blue header

    Sunset on BK Crown

    Le Dunk photo • Mar 4 2015


    blue header

    Chair Puns

    A couple weeks ago, the team at The Color Machine got together to take our first official “family portrait.” And boy were the chair puns flowing. One of my favorites came when we first arrived to the room of chairs and hadn’t built the wall yet. Jordan said, “have a seat.”

    chairs photo • Aug 24 2013


    blue header

    Gary Graham, fall 2011

    For the past few seasons I’ve shot video for Gary Graham’s fashion week presentations under the tutelage of Alex Antitch for Ace Collective. Antitch is Graham’s regular photographer and the creative director of his most recent shows. This time around the shoot was at Graham’s recently christened Tribeca space. There was the usual frenetic energy […]

    fashion Gary Graham nyc photo • Feb 10 2011


    blue header

    New Lenses

    A few months ago I bought a new camera, primarily for filmmaking purposes. The surprising upshot is how often I use it to take stills. (… Duh!). There was a burst of light in the office this afternoon and… boom. This one was captured on a 28mm lens.

    photo self portrait • Nov 12 2010


      a blob-g