A rare atmosphere within which the photographer, the lens and the viewer all share the same visual experience.
RALPH GIBSON
Nina Welch-Kling is a conceptual street photographer based in New York City. Rooted in a background in architecture and design, her work explores the quiet drama of everyday urban life, anonymous figures, motion, light, and the city as a living structure. Her photographs have been exhibited internationally and published in LensCulture, Elle, Schwarzweiss Magazin, and beyond.
Now is Now New York presents the restless, electrifying essence of New York through street photography, curated from the distinctive perspectives of different photographers. Their images trace the city’s layered realities—from Midtown’s neon corridors to the quiet corners of the outer boroughs—capturing the tension between glamour and grit, chaos and stillness, anonymity and intimacy.
Photographs by
Luc Kordas, Arnaud Montagard, Mathias Wasik, Sabrina Santiago, Nina Welch-Kling, Elijah Mogoli, Josh Ethan Johnson, Brian Karlsson, Mark Abramson, Sara Messinger and Mike Szpot
Foreword by Bill Shapiro.
Through 30 September 2026
29 rue de la Liberté
ARLES, FRANCE
Curated by Sabine Schnakenberg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Three photographers, three different paths, a shared encounter with New York—each shaped by distance, displacement, and return. Presented together in Arles, the works of Nina Welch-Kling (New York, United States), Jens Krauer (Zurich, Switzerland), and Mario Schneider (Halle, East Germany) reflect distinct perspectives, rooted in each artist’s background and lived experience. Their perspectives intersect in the city while remaining shaped by different cultural, historical, and personal contexts.
This is how the pictures begin. Not with a composition, but with looking: scanning the sidewalk for a gesture, a color, or a shape.
Most of what passes through the frame never becomes a photograph. The ones that stay find a partner later, in the edit, which is where Duologues comes from.