RICK D'ELIA

Sports, Reportage
Phoenix, USA

Based in Phoenix, Arizona, USA, Rick has spent three-decades working as a photojournalist documenting moments and stories in people’s lives, to help viewers better understand the stories and understand how others live.

After earning a bachelor of Science in journalism/photojournalism from Northern Arizona University, he began his professional career covering news, sports, features and essays at a Connecticut newspaper in 1989. His work has been published world-wide in, among many, Time, Life, The Guardian, Le Monde, the LA Times, London Times, USA Today, and many other major publications, news sites and books.

Rick also brings his photojournalistic talent to bear with international relief organizations such as Save the Children and Catholic Relief Services, documenting their work in 19 countries to date, including, Uganda, Rwanda, Albania, Brazil, Nicaragua, Cambodia and Mexico.

In 2004, while working in Uganda, Rick documented the war in Northern Uganda and its effect on the people for an exhibition funded by the US State Department. Profoundly inspired, he has pursued subsequent projects in parallel to daily work, returning to Africa multiple times, and traveling to three other continents in this endeavor.