Sturchio (they/them) is an interdisciplinary artist-scholar whose photography-based practice operates at the intersection of queer phenomenology, disability justice, and the haptic archive. Working with constructed photographs and large-format silver gelatin printing, Sturchio engages with photography's historical legacy as a tool of surveillance and categorization by reframing the camera as an instrument for active and participatory witnessing. Their work investigates the disoriented body as a primary source of generative knowledge that disrupts socially idealized fantasies of beauty, ability, and gender.

Sturchio’s practice emphasizes the materiality of the analog process, utilizing silver gelatin prints to explore the politics of touch. In an era of digital ephemerality, they return to the chemistry of the darkroom to honor the slow, ritualized labor of making a body visible. The act of touch on photographic surface serves as a methodology for grief and documenting survival as a form of radical resistance.

The investigation of relationality extends into their social practice as co-founder of Begin Collective, which they run with their twin sister, Bianca Sturchio (LCSW, MSW) where community-as-medium serves as a framework for collective world-building for LGBTQ+, nonbinary, and disabled, chronically ill, and neurodivergent people.

Through over 15 years of collaborative inquiry, Sturchio seeks to expand photography's record, utilizing the historical weight of the photographic archive to honor sovereign embodiment and the rituals of those navigating normative margins.

They are a 2026 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography.