Vincent Vallarino (b. 1953) is an American photographer, gallerist, and collector whose distinguished career has combined a serious personal photographic practice with significant contributions to the American photography community. Born in Austin, Texas, Vallarino grew up in Conway, New Hampshire. He began photographing at the age of fourteen while attending prep school, and by sixteen he was already exhibiting his work. In 1971 he studied photography with Minor White and Stephen Gersh in Boston, and he later apprenticed under Paul Caponigro and Michael Hoffman, publisher of Aperture, while studying at Apeiron in Millerton, New York.

Many of Vallarino's early photographs address form and abstraction through still lifes, a subject he has continued to explore across more than three decades of practice. Five trips to Iceland between 1970 and 1975 produced a substantial body of images of the rugged landscape and lava-swept terrain of that dramatic country, interpreted through the language of abstract form and landscape abstraction. He became a member of the Polaroid Collection in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1972, and then relocated to Lucerne, Switzerland, where he served as assistant editor of Camera magazine under the legendary editor Allan Porter. During his European years he devoted considerable attention to photographing the woods in Luxembourg.

Vallarino has been a serious collector as well as a photographer. From 1976 through 1986, he assembled a collection of more than one thousand photographs, which he donated to the Currier Gallery of Art in Manchester, New Hampshire, and to the International Center of Photography in New York City. He and Steve Gersh later founded a company in Essex, Massachusetts, called Light Works, one of the earliest photographic printing and portfolio production facilities of its day.

In 1982 Vallarino teamed with Richard Avedon and helped develop the celebrated Christian Dior advertising campaign, in which he also appeared as the model Oliver Dior. That same year he and Nicholas Callaway published one of Avedon's most famous photographs, Kinsky and the Serpent. In 1983 he edited Francesco Scavullo's retrospective monograph and organized international exhibitions of the photographer's work.

Vallarino moved to Millbrook, New York, with his family in 1987. The following year he and his partner Abby Taylor founded the Greenwich Gallery in Greenwich, Connecticut, which specializes in nineteenth and twentieth-century American and European paintings. In 1993 the Currier Gallery of Art acquired a master set of Vallarino's photographs for its permanent collection and mounted a twenty-five-year retrospective. He was elected to the Board of Directors of the Fine Art Dealers Association in 1996 and served until 2000.