Joseph Mario (J.M.) Giordano is an award-winning photojournalist based in Baltimore and co-host of the photojournalism podcast, 10 Frames Per Second with Molly Roberts. His book, Trumpland:Carnival to Chaos (Nighted Life Press, 2024) documents the rise of Trump. This year he was named a finalist for the prestigious National Gallery's Outwin Boochever Portrait Prize and will be featured in American Photography Annual 41 for his coverage of 10 years of police brutality in America. His work was featured in American Photography Annual 40 for his second book 13-23 (Nighted Life Press), covering a decade of Baltimore's homicides. His international photographs covering the collapse of the steel industry are the subject of a solo show at the Museum of Industry in Baltimore. His first book, We Used to Live At Night (Culture Crush Editions) chronicles 25 years of the city at night and was called "a mix between Weegee anbd Brassai". His work has been featured on NPR, ProPublica, Al-Jazeera, GQ, Architectural Digest, Taste, The Observer New Review Sunday Magazine, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Daily Mail, Washington Post, The Baltimore City Paper, i-D Magazine, Discovery Channel Inc., Rolling-Stone. His work, from the Struggle Civil Rights and Baltimore Activists series, is in the permanent collections at the Reginald Lewis Museum.