Gerry Visco

Gerry Visco is hysterical. Gerry Visco is ridiculously insane. Gerry Visco is the photographer who gives the most intimate perspective of the New York night life. When you look at her party pics you’d think it’s still the 80s and they have all been taken in Studio54. She regularly covers parties, events, and the arts for New York Press in a weekly column and has also published stories and photographs in The Village Voice, Homoneurotic, Try State Magazine, birdsong, Gawker, the New York Sun, New York Magazine, Fit Yoga, Beyond Race Magazine, New York Blade, Gay City News, $pread Magazine, and other publications in print and online. She’s shown her photographs at Gallery U in Montclair, New Jersey, Envoy Gallery, and Artflux.

Here is an abstract of Q&A session with Gerry:

Not to be shallow, but your style is of course one of your hallmarks. How would you describe your style? Where do you get your clothes?

I love being shallow. As I said at the Inner Beauty Parlor, I believe in outer beauty far more than inner beauty.  We are what we eat and our outer selves are shaped by our inner selves. People’s faces and bodies become distorted from the mind, which is where phrenology and physiognomy enter the picture, and the Chinese art of face-reading.  The way people look reflects who they have become. As infants, we are all more alike.

What is the absolute best and the absolute worst parties you’ve ever been to in NYC?

Well, I can have a good time anywhere but I love it when there are good-looking people, with costumes, club kids, trannies, and drag queens. I also prefer a mixed crowd of young, rich, downtown, funky, artist, gay, straight and in-between.  The best parties I’ve been to this year would be at Vandam, the F Word, Dr!p, some at Glasslands. I like Goth parties, even if the people are trashy.

And here is a selection of her thousands of party pics:

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