Vincent Cianni is a documentary photographer, educator, and activist who explores social justice through image, text, and audio. He was Adjunct Associate Professor at the Parsons School of Design for 30 years and the founder and director of the Newburgh Community Photo Project, a grassroots community photo workshop in Newburgh, NY. We Skate Hardcore was published by NYU Press and the Center for Documentary Studies in 2004, and a major survey was exhibited at the Museum of the City of New York in 2006. Gays in the Military (GITM)  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 GITM at TEDxUniversityofNevada (2015) and The Archive for Documentary Arts (Duke University) established a study archive of his documentary photographs in 2007. Cianni’s photographs appear in numerous anthologies and online magazines, are exhibited nationally and internationally, and are represented in numerous public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Rio de Janeiro; The Library of Congress; 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.