Gioncarlo Valentine

Gioncarlo Valentine (b. 1990) is an award-winning American photographer and writer. Gioncarlo hails from Baltimore City and attended Towson University, in Maryland. Backed by his seven years of social work experience, his photographic work seeks to examine issues faced by marginalized populations, most often focusing his lens on the experiences of Black/LGBTQIA+ communities. His writing, most often in the form of the essay, aims to unpack personal histories and examine the interiors of his own intersectional identities. Through writing and photography, Gioncarlo aims to broaden conversations around masculinity culture, violence, gender, the body, and longing.

His work has been collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art and he has received residencies from Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Yaddo, The Vermont Studio Center, and The Bemis Center among others. His photographs have appeared on the covers of Rolling Stone, Esquire, Variety, Sharp Magazine, and WSJ Magazine as well as within the pages of The New York Times Magazine, Scientific American, American Vogue, and People Magazine. He has been commissioned by commercial clients like Dwell, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, and Puma. He writes about photographs for the New Yorker and has published writing with The New York Times, THEM, Insider, The Rumpus, Fader, and many others.