Belenna M. Lauto
Associate Professor
St. John's University
Belenna M. Lauto is an Associate Professor of Photography in St. John's College and a Vincentian Research Fellow. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is in several museum and private collections including the Center for Photography at Woodstock, NY, Islip Art Museum, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art. For the past ten years she has been documenting the work of Mommas House, an organization that helps to educate homeless, single young mothers, in all aspects of life. She also coordinates the Very Special Arts Queens Festival, which provides a venue of art education for children with special needs.
Academic Background
- M.F.A. Photography, New York University
Research Interests
The potential of photography to inspire, to provoke positive change, and to stimulate in students a positive outlook toward humanity and a richer understanding of society
Affiliation with the Center
Senior Vincentian Research Fellow, Class of 2006"It is important to remind our students that the visual language holds no barriers. Regardless of our spoken language, as long as we have sight, each of us is affected by images.Photography's visual language is strengthened in that photographs hold within them a little piece of history, a moment preserved. They remind us that things not familiar to us, do in fact, exist; that our very humanity calls us to solidarity and that we are all ultimately accountable to one another."
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