Vincent Cianni attended Penn State University and SUNY New Paltz. Cianni uses photographic documentary as a tool for social and political change, investigating specific subcultures and creating powerful images to catalyse social change. Cianni published his award-winning ‘We Skate Hardcore’ in 2004. ‘Gays in the Military’ was issued by Daylight Books in 2014. The photographer teaches at Parsons, the New School for Design in New York City.