Gary Cialdella is a photographer working in the social landscape tradition, a professional architectural photographer, and an educator. He earned his MFA in photography from the University of Notre Dame and holds an MA in history from Western Michigan University. He has taught photography and photographic history at various universities, including the University of Notre Dame, Kendall College of Art and Design and the Academy of Art University. His work has been represented in the Museum of Contemporary Photography’s Midwest Photographers Archive and is included in corporate and private collections, including Bank of America and the Pfizer Corporation, In 2009, his book The Calumet Region, An American Place was published by the Brauer Museum of Art and the University of Illinois Press.