Giancarlo Montes Santangelo was born and raised between Bethesda, Maryland and Washington D.C., He received a BFA in Photography from SUNY Purchase in 2018. His work teases out the relationships between queerness Since then he has joined the Peace Corps in South Africa and has been teaching English, Creative Arts and facilitating a photography club in a primary school in rural KZN. He is interested in facilitating a relationship between communities and art, whether through art making, collaborative-participatory projects, analysis of art works, and/or primary experiential learning.