Bio

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Rodrigo Carrizo Couto is a photographer, video producer and journalist based in Switzerland. 

Member of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Swiss professional register (RP|BR) he started reporting from the Soviet Union in 1988. He studied photography and video production in Moscow, Paris, Buenos Aires, Geneva and Lausanne. 

In 2003, he began a collaboration with the major Spanish newspaper "El País". Since 2008 he contributes regularly to the SRG-SSR Swissinfo (Swiss Broadcasting) online magazine and has a permanent column in “Literal Magazine”, from Houston, USA. His photos and articles are published regularly in newspapers and magazines from Switzerland, Spain, Europe and the Americas. 

He has photographed and interviewed personalities such as Quincy Jones, Kofi Annan, Sir Anthony Hopkins, Harvey Keitel, Yasmina Reza, Paco de Lucía, H.R.Giger, Diego Maradona, Zubin Mehta, Youssou N’Dour, or former Swiss presidents Micheline Calmy-Rey and Doris Leuthard, among hundreds of others. 

In 2007 his photos were published in the book “Envie d’Envol” (Editions In Octavo, Paris) in collaboration with the Swiss poetess Lucienne Giradier-Serex. He has exhibited his portraits of artists in Basel and Neuchâtel (Switzerland) and Buenos Aires (Argentina).

Since 2017 his photographic work is represented by Bridgeman Images, from London, U.K.

Rodrigo works in English, French and Spanish.

His pictures have been published by media such as:

· Diario "El País" (Madrid, Spain)

· SRG SSR Swissinfo (Bern, Switzerland)

· "Literal Magazine" (Houston, USA)

· "L'Hebdo" Magazine (Lausanne, Switzerland)

· "Globus Reisen" (Zürich, Switzerland)

· "Le Matin Dimanche" (Lausanne, Switzerland)

· Diario "Clarín" (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

· Diario "La Nación" (Buenos Aires, Argentina)

· "Scherzo" Magazine (Madrid, Spain)

· "Fotomundo" Magazine (Buenos Aires, Argentina)