Join us at ICP for a screening of Gioncarlo Valentine: Exposures, directed by Zeshawn Ali, exploring Valentine’s practice through the lens of compassion, community, and creative drive. Following the screening, Valentine will be joined in conversation by writer Casey Gerald.
About the Film
In Exposures, Gioncarlo Valentine’s lush and tender photography is on full display. For his work as a queer Black photographer from Baltimore, he has dedicated his career towards creating an archive of everyday moments to honor the beauty of his community. But as his profile as a photographer grows, he reckons with the increased visibility and what it means for the work he creates. This film was commissioned by the "In the Making" Series –– a documentary shorts series from American Masters and Firelight Media –– which follows emerging cultural icons on their journeys to becoming masters of their artistic disciplines.
Runtime: 18 min.
About the Speakers
Gioncarlo Valentine (b. 1990) is an award-winning American photographer and writer from Baltimore City. His photographs have been collected by the Whitney Museum of American Art and he has been commissioned by Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal Magazine, The New Yorker, and Scientific American among many others.
Casey Gerald is the author There Will Be No Miracles Here, named a Best Book of the Year by NPR and The New York Times, among others. His critically-acclaimed essays include “The Black Art of Escape” for New York Magazine, and “Leon Bridges After Dark,” for Texas Monthly. Casey has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, at TED and SXSW, in Italian Vogue, and on the cover of Fast Company, which named him one of the "Most Creative People in Business." He is at work on his forthcoming book, The Great Refusal, to be published May 2026 by Little, Brown.
Image by Gioncarlo Valentine
