Nicholas Pinto is an Italian-American photographer. He grew up on the southwest side of Chicago. He spent a few years serving in the United States Army and subsequently studied Fine Art Photography at Columbia College. After graduating, Pinto has worked as a freelance photographer and designer. Since that time, he has “been actively challenging myself to take photographs through every stage of my life” and he does so with a masterful eye and a keen awareness of the surreal aspects of the ordinary reality present on every street corner. He lives with his wife and his “awesome little boy” in Chicago.