Priscilla Rattazzi (born 1956, Rome) attended the prestigious Atlantic College in Wales, UK, before moving to the United States in the 1970s. She studied photography at Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and later worked as an assistant to photographer Hiro. Throughout the 1980s, Rattazzi worked as a fashion and portrait photographer in New York.
Rattazzi is also a writer and has published four books – Best Friends (1989), Georgica Pond (2000), Luna & Lola (2010), and Three Lindens (2023) – featuring her photography and writing. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at the Peter Marino Art Foundation, Southampton, New York (Three Lindens, 2023); the Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (Form Forward: Brett Weston and Photographers of Things Unseen, 2022–23), the Staley-Wise Gallery, New York (2014–20), the Knoxville Museum of Art (1992), the Valentina Moncada gallery in Rome, Italy (2004), and in conjunction with the launch of her book Luna & Lola, two exhibitions at the Ralph Lauren stores in East Hampton, New York and Milan, Italy (2010).
