Getting Published

GET PUBLISHED

Join us for a panel discussion about the world of book publishing. Hear from our expert panelists as they share their experiences in the publishing industry, discuss common challenges authors face, and provide tips on how to successfully navigate the publishing process. Our panel will also cover topics such as how to choose the right publishing house, how to effectively market your book, and how to develop an author platform. This is a great opportunity to gain valuable insights and ask questions about the publishing process. All are welcome to attend.

With Nina Welch-Kling, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn, Ashly Stohl, Meryl Meisler. Moderated by Melissa Breyer

Melissa Breyer is an award-winning photographer and writer specializing in street photography. Breyer’s work has been exhibited across the globe and has been featured in national and international publications, including National Geographic, The New York Times, and numerous books. She authored the essay for the book Women Street Photographers (Prestel, 2021), and her own photo book, Metropolis, was published by Peanut Press in 2020.

https://www.melissabreyer.com/

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.

As a documentary and portrait photographer, Laylah Amatullah Barrayn focuses her inquiries on the cultures and identities within the global Black diaspora with a special interest in memory and the lived experiences of women. Her practice, spanning 20 years, includes exhibition organizing and essay writing. She is frequently on assignment for The New York Times and has been commissioned by The Guardian, Le Monde, National Geographic, NPR, Vogue and The New Yorker.

Barrayn’s monograph, We Are Present: 2020 in Portraits, was published with the support of Magnum Foundation. She is also co-author of MFON: Women Photographers of the African Diaspora, the first anthology in nearly 30 years that highlights photography produced by women of African descent. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and she is a recipient of numerous grants. Barrayn is currently completing a book on contemporary Black photographers. She holds a M.A. from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Ashly Stohl is a photographer based in Los Angeles and New York, and co-founder and Publisher of Peanut Press, an independent photobook publisher.

She was born and raised in the City of Angels. She earned a BS in chemistry from UCSB, but spent more time with the creative crowd from Brooks Institute of Photography. After college, she returned to L.A. and put her science education to use, creating award-winning educational websites for NASA’s Mars Program Office.

She embraced photography as an escape from the demands of being a mother, yet motherhood is the inescapable lens through which she views her subjects. She examines community as an extension of the family, and believes that the families and people create for themselves can be as revealing as the ones to which they were born.

Ashly has lectured at institutions including The Penumbra Foundation, Columbia University, George Washington University, and SPE National. In 2015, she published her first book, Charth Vader, and it became a viral sensation. Ashly and now lends her experience to other photographers, publishing through Peanut Press.

Meryl Meisler was born in 1951 in the South Bronx and raised in Long Island, NY, USA. Inspired by Diane Arbus, Jacques Henri Lartigue, her dad Jack and grandfather Murray Meisler, she enrolled in a photography class at The University of Wisconsin–Madison. She moved to NYC in 1975 and studied with Lisette Model, while photographing her hometown and the city around her. After working as a freelance illustrator by day, Meryl frequented and photographed the infamous New York Discos. As a 1978 CETA Artist grant recipient, Meryl created a portfolio of photographs exploring her Jewish Identity for the American Jewish Congress. After CETA, Meryl began a 31-year career as a NYC Public School Art Teacher. Upon retiring from teaching, she began releasing large bodies of previously unseen work as exhibits and, in her books, A Tale of Two Cities: Disco Era Bushwick (BIZARRE 2014), Purgatory & Paradise SASSY ‘70s Suburbia &; The City (BIZARRE Publishing 2015), and New York PARADISE LOST Bushwick Era Disco (Parallel Pictures Press 2021). Meryl is honoree of the 2021 Center for Photography at Woodstock Affinity Award. Time Magazine includes her on their list of the greatest unsung female photographers of the past century. She is represented by ClampArt.

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