Vincent Cianni Guests On TriVersity Talk! With Host Wendy Stuart 7 PM ET Wednesday February 19th, 2025

Wendy Stuart will be hosting TriVersity Talk! this Wednesday at 7 PM ET with featured guest Vincent Cianni.

TriVersity Talk! is a weekly web series with featured guests discussing their lives, activism and pressing issues in the LGBTQ Community. With TriVersity Talk!, the goal is to laugh and learn.

TriVersity Talk! Is part of TriVersity’s ICARE Initiative. ICARE stands for Increasing Community Awareness through Relevant Education. ICARE Programs are generously funded by The Greater Pike Community.

Vincent Cianni is a documentary photographer exploring social justice through image, text and audio. Cianni holds an MFA in Photography from SUNY New Paltz, teaches at Parsons, The New School for Design in NYC, and is the founder/director of Newburgh Community Photo Project, a grassroots community photo project in Newburgh, NY. The Archive for Documentary Arts (Duke University) established a study archive of his photographic work in 2007. We Skate Hardcore, published by NYU Press and the Center for Documentary Studies in 2004, was awarded the American Association of University Press Best Book Design and a major survey of this work was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006. Gays in the Military, an investigation into the effects of the military’s ban on the lives and careers of LGBT service members was published by Daylight Books in May 2014 and was featured in the New York Times Sunday Review and The Katie Couric Show. He presented this project with TEDxUniversityofNevada (2015) and has lectured on his work at the Library of Congress, the American Psychiatric Association, OutServe/SLDN Leadership Conference, and in many photographic, gallery, and museum venues. Cianni’s photographs have appeared in The New Republic, Aperture, Double Take, The New Yorker, l’Espresso, Slate, ViceUK, Photography as Activism; New York 400: A Visual History of America’s Greatest City; The Polaroid Book and numerous anthologies and online magazines. His photographs have been exhibited nationally, including the Stephen Daiter Gallery (Chicago), Verve Gallery (Santa Fe), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the George Eastman House, as well as in international photo festivals at Houston Fotofest, KOLGA Tbilisi Photo Festival, and the 7^th Internaltionale Fototage Mannheim. His photographs reside in numerous public and private collections including Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; The Library of Congress; The Worcester Museum of Art, The Kinsey Institute for Sexual Research; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; George Eastman House; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of the City of New York, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

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