NEW YORK TRILOGY
07.07.2026, 18H00 -
08.07.2026, 17H00 -
09.07.2026, 16H00 -
Swiss Night, an evening celebrating Swiss photography at Off Arles.
Vernissage, a conversation with the curator Sabine Schnakenberg (Deichtorhallen Hamburg) and the publisher Klaus Kehrer (Kehrer Verlag, Heidelberg)
Foto Walk with Jens Krauer, Nina Welch-Kling & Mario Schneider (meet at the Gallery)
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 exhibition brings together three Kehrer-published artists working with the street as a site of human observation, visual memory, and storytelling. The exhibition creates a dialogue between three distinct ways of seeing urban life: Krauer’s direct and candid encounters, Welch-Kling’s lyrical and conceptual perception of the street, and Schneider’s cinematic sensitivity to atmosphere, narrative, and quiet human moments. Together, the works present street photography as more than documentation. They reveal the street as a space where fleeting gestures, emotional traces, visual rhythms, and personal stories unfold, inviting viewers to consider how urban experience is seen, felt, remembered, and transformed
Jens Krauer is a Zurich-based street and documentary photographer. Since the early 2010s his work has focused on candid urban life and human interaction in public space as well as documentary projects mainly in Ukraine before and during the war. Over more than a decade, his photographs have been presented in exhibitions, festivals, workshops, and specialist photography media in Switzerland and internationally.
Nina Welch-Kling is a New York City–based, German-American conceptual street photographer. Her background in architecture (Master of Architecture, UCLA) and design (B.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago), together with her love of roaming city streets, shapes her often mysterious depictions of everyday life.
She has received multiple LensCulture honors, including finalist in the 2020 and 2025 Street Photography Awards and a 2020 Critics’ Choice Award. Her work has been widely exhibited internationally and featured in print and online outlets such as The Guardian, The Eye of Photography, British Journal of Photography, Dazed, Musée Magazine, and MyModernMet.com.
In 2021, she was named one of eight Hasselblad Heroines. Her first monograph, Duologues, was published by Kehrer Verlag in 2022 and has since been exhibited as a solo show at Kunsthalle/Kunstsalong Schweinfurt (2024) and VHS Gallery Stuttgart (2025). Her work is held in private collections in Europe and the United States.
As a director and author, Mario Schneider is an experienced storyteller. With “New York Short Stories,” he demonstrates that his photographs also possess narrative power. His internationally acclaimed street photography focuses on fleeting, intimate moments and interpersonal encounters, offering a different, quieter view of the city that never sleeps: New York.
The photographs illuminate New York from an unusual, very personal perspective. What seemed unattainable to Mario Schneider, who spent his childhood and youth in the GDR until the age of 20 – a place he never thought he would see – only became possible for him much later with the camera. His pictures tell of tenderness, comfort, love, and hope, and open up a calm, concentrated view of a city beyond the expected.