Nina Welch-Kling is a New York City-based photographer. The German native combines her background in architecture and design with her passion for roaming the city streets to guide her often mysterious photographic depictions of everyday life. Welch-Kling earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in Interior Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990 and a Master in Architecture from The University of California, Los Angeles in 1993.
In 2020, Welch-Kling was a recipient of the LenCulture Critics’ Choice Award as well as a finalist in the LensCulture Street Photography Awards. Welch-Kling's work has been included in multiple international photography exhibitions as well as numerous magazine and online publications including The Guardian, British Journal of Photography, Dazed, Musée Magazine, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung and TheModernMet.com. Welch-Kling’s work is included in the book “Women Street Photographers”, edited by Gulnara Samoilova published by Prestel. In 2021, she was one of eight women named a Hasselblad Heroine. Welch-Kling's first monograph, titled “Duologues” was published by Kehrer Verlag in the Fall of 2022.
Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg