Peter Kayafas (born 1971) is an American photographer, publisher, and educator based in New York City. He creates black and white photographs that are "simple and spare, yet quietly overpowering with their evocation of a history on a scale beyond that of individual human lives." Kayafas is the Director of the Eakins Press Foundation and is a

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in photography. He is Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation of

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and was an adjunct associate professor of photography at Pratt Institute for 21 years. Kayafas's photographs are in the collections of the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, the

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, and SFMOMA, and there are five monographs of his photographs in print.

Life and work

Early work

Peter Kayafas was born in

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in 1971 and raised in

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. His father, Gus Kayafas, founded the undergraduate photography program at

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, and his mother Arlette Kayafas, is the founder and owner of celebrated Boston gallery, Gallery Kayafas. He moved to New York City in 1989 to study photography at New York University's

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, from which he received a BFA in 1993. During his college years, he worked as a printer for

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, and studied with

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, Anthony Barboza, and A. D. Coleman. Kayafas spent the summer and fall of 1991 in

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where he did an independent study with Henry Wessel, Jr. at the

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, and worked for Andy Grundberg at the

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. In 1990, he met and began working for

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, founder and publisher of the

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. In 1993, Katz appointed Kayafas the Director of the press, a position he has continued for three decades.

Professional life

Peter Kayafas's photographs have been published in five monographs: Peter Kayafas: ''Coney Island Waterdance (2021),'' Peter Kayafas: ''The Way West'' (2020), ''Totems'' (2012), ''O Public Road! Photographs of America'' (2009), and ''The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta'' (2007). His photographs have also been published in various magazines and journals—including DoubleTake Magazine and

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—as well as in photography books, including '' Bystander: A History of Street Photography'' (2001 and 2017), and ''The Spirit of Family'' by

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and

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(2002). Kayafas has had numerous solo exhibitions in New York City and Boston, most notably at Sasha Wolf Gallery. Kayafas has given lectures at dozens of venues, including

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, the

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, and

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. In 2018 he became Co-Chair of the Board of Directors of the Corporation of

. In 2019, Kayafas was awarded the prestigious

Guggenheim Fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

for photography. As a publisher and editor running the Eakins Press Foundation for three decades, Kayafas has produced celebrated books by some of the most world-renowned photographers, including

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, and

Stephen Shore Stephen Shore (born October 8, 1947) is an American photographer known for his images of banal scenes and objects, and for his pioneering use of color in art photography. His books include ''Uncommon Places'' (1982) and ''American Surfaces'' (199 ...

. He has been teaching photography at

since 2000, and has been represented by Sasha Wolf Projects since 2003.

''Coney Island Waterdance''

''Coney Island Waterdance'' is a collection of photographs by Peter Kayafas taken between the years of 1991 and 2002, which depicts swimmers in the summertime as well as the

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in the winter. Kayafas was the first photographer to join the Polar Bear Club in the water to photograph them. The collection of photographs was featured in ''

''. A book featuring this work was published in 2021 by Purple Martin Press.

''Cuba''

Kayafas travelled to

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in 2000 and 2001. The New Yorker called his Cuba photographs “crisp and direct, and the best of them vibrate with understated graphic tension.” Kayafas's pictures from Cuba were featured in ''DoubleTake Magazine'' (Winter 2002) and in the exhibition: ''Two Views of Cuba'', with photographer Lou Jones, at the

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in Lincoln, Massachusetts in 2002.

''Romania''

''Romania'' is a collection of photographs that was made during several trips to

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by Kayafas from 2003 to 2005. The collection was created by driving more than 10,000 kilometers and photographing the Romanian countryside and many Romanian cities. These photographs were exhibited at the

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in New York City (2005) and the Romanian Embassy in Washington, DC (2006).

''The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta''

Designed by the Dutch designer Tessa van der Waals and produced in Holland in 2007, ''The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta'' is a book about the carved graves in the remote

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. There are photographs of the colorful tombstones and their respective epitaphs, with translations by Adrian Sahlean. The book also includes an essay by the Romanian scholar Sanda Golopentia. These photographs were exhibited at the Romanian Cultural Institute in New York City (2005) and the Romanian Embassy in Washington, DC (2006).

''People In New York''

Published in coordination with the Sasha Wolf Gallery in 2004, ''People In New York'' is an exhibition catalogue that includes a selection of 13 photographs by Peter Kayafas of people on the streets and in the parks of

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. The book includes a short essay on that common occurrence in the city: the familiar glance from a stranger.

''O Public Road!''

''O Public Road! Photographs of America'' is a 2009 book of photographs published by Purple Martin Press. It features 160 pages of black and white photographs of landscapes, road signs, and people made by Peter Kayafas during two decades of road trips across America. The book includes an essay by

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and a song by

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''Totems''

''Totems ''is an exhibition and publication project by American photographer Peter Kayafas that consists of photographs of abandoned buildings in the west that ''

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'' said “have both sculptural presence and a symbolic weight.” The book ''Totems'' is a 2012 monograph by Kayafas, with an essay by renowned art critic, Jed Perl. Selections from ''Totems'' have been exhibited to critical acclaim in solo exhibitions in New York and New England in 2011 and 2012. Of the Totems photographs, Perl writes: “Kayafas's explorations of an endangered vernacular architecture are at once straightforward records and unabashedly poetic meditations, a matter of the photographer testing the quality of his attentiveness against the facts on the ground. The lyric impulse is sharpened by the documentary convention.”

''Mexico City''

''Mexico City'' is a collection of photographs that were made by Kayafas between 2012 and 2016. Since more than half of Mexico City's 21 million people are under twenty-five, Kayafas chose to focus on various rituals of the youth sub-culture that are prevalent in many parts of the city.

''The Way West''

''The Way West'' is a photographic project by Peter Kayafas that includes exhibitions and a monograph. The book, ''Peter Kayafas: The Way West'', is the third monograph of Kayafas's work photographing along the roads of the United States, released in 2020. It includes an essay by acclaimed writer,

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, as well as images from ten years and thousands of miles of travel in the Plains States of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Colorado. According to a review of the book in

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from April 14, 2020: “Kayafas has come back with what surely constitutes one of the most exhaustive, vivid photographic studies of a region to be produced anywhere in recent decades.”

Notable exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

* ''Peter Kayafas: Selected Southern Photographs'', Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA, 2000 * ''‘O Public Road’: Photographs by Peter Kayafas'', Public Policy Research Center, University of Missouri, Saint Louis, 2001 * ''Two Views of Cuba: Photographs by Lou Jones & Peter Kayafas'', the Decordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, 2002 * ''People in New York: Photographs by Peter Kayafas'', Sasha Wolf Photographs, New York, 2004 * ''Romania: Photographs by Peter Kayafas'', Sasha Wolf Photographs, New York, 2004 * ''Peter Kayafas: Selected Photographs, 1992-2004'', Gallery Kayafas, Boston, 2005 * ''The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta and Selected Photographs of Romania'', the Romanian Cultural Institute, New York, 2005 * ''An American in Romania: Photographs by Peter Kayafas'', the Romanian Embassy, Washington, Dc, May 4-June 4, 2006 * ''Road Trips: Photographs by Gus Kayafas & Peter Kayafas'', Tremaine Gallery Hotchkiss School, September 6-October 21, 2006 * ''Peter Kayafas: Recent Photographs of America'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, January 10-March 1, 2008 * ''Peter Kayafas: Recent Photographs of America'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, January 10-March 1, 2008 * ''The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta'', Photographs by Peter Kayafas, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, June 11-July 26, 2008 * ''Peter Kayafas: Totems'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, May 25-July 16, 2011 * ''Peter Kayafas: Totems'', Gallery Kayafas, Boston, January 13-February 25, 2012 * ''The Way West: Photographs by Peter Kayafas'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, April 30-June 7, 2014 * ''Peter Kayafas: Ecos, Universidad Del Claustro De Sor Juana'',

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, March 30-May 20, 2016 * ''Coming of Age in the West, Photographs by Peter Kayafas'',

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, New York, March 23-April 28, 2017 * ''Peter Kayafas & Paul Mcdonough: The Spirit of America'', Sarah Shepard Gallery, Larkspur, California, January 25-March 2, 2019 * ''Peter Kayafas: The Way West'', Gallery Kayafas, Boston, Massachusetts, March 6-April 11, 2020

Group exhibitions

* ''Straight Arrows (Group Show)'', Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2001 * ''The Sidewalk Never Ends (Group Show)'', Art Institute of Chicago, 2002 * ''Alone: Images of Isolation from the Permanent Collection (Group Show)'', the

DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is a 30-acre sculpture park and contemporary art museum on the shore of Flint's Pond in Lincoln, Massachusetts, 20 miles northwest of Boston. It was established in 1950. It is the largest park of its kind ...

, Lincoln, MA, 2002 * ''Gotham: Photographs of New York (Group Show)'', Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, MA, 2002 * ''The ‘ing’ Show: A Group Show'', Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2003 * ''Wild Flowers: A Group Show'', Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2004 * ''Still Life & Stilled Lives: A Group Show'', Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2005 * ''Vernacular Territory: Photographs by George Tice, Kate Schermerhorn & Peter Kayafas'', Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2005 * ''Adieu: A Farewell Exhibition (Group Show)'', Ariel Meyerowitz Gallery, New York, 2005 * ''Sasha Wolf Photographs at Gitterman Gallery: Photographs by Peter Kayafas, Eric Lewandowski, Alan Chin, Yola Monakhov, and Adam Schrieber'', Gitterman Gallery, New York, July 25-August 19, 2006 * ''Place and Time (Group Show)'', the Demenil Gallery, the Groton School, Groton Massachusetts, September 24-November 11, 2007 * ''Moving Through New England (Group Show)'', the Decordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, October 6, 2007-September, 2007 * ''Photographs of Children from the Permanent Collection (Group Show)'', the

, Lincoln, Massachusetts February 2-April 27, 2008 * ''In Our Dreams (Group Show)'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, June 26-August 9, 2008 * ''Signs: Wordplay in Photography (Group Show)'', De Young Museum, San Francisco, Ca., January 17- June 14, 2009 * ''Paul Mcdonough & Peter Kayafas Photographs'', Gallery Fiol, Palma De Majorca, Spain, June 17-July 31, 2010 * ''Residents & Visitors: 20th Century Photographs of Louisiana (Group Show)'', New Orleans Museum of Art, November, 2011 * ''AIPAD Photography Show (Sasha Wolf Gallery) (Group Show)'', the Armory, New York, March 28-April 1, 2012 * ''Intra Country: Patriotic Expressions (Group Show)'', Gallery Kayafas, Boston, July 6-August 11, 2012 * ''Group Show: An Introduction'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, December 4, 2012 – January 13, 2013 * ''AIPAD Photography Show (Sasha Wolf Gallery) (Group Show)'', the Armory, New York, April 3-April 6, 2103 * ''Group Exhibition: The Drinking Show'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, July 10-August 16, 2013 * ''Romeo & Juliet in Pictures: A Group Show'', Sasha Wolf Gallery, New York, June 18-August 10, 2014 * ''New York: Three Views, Peter Kayafas, Aaron Rose, Lynn Saville'', Gallery Kayafas, Boston, January 22-February 27, 2016 * ''Trees II (Group Show)'', Gallery Kayafas, Boston, June 8-July 28, 2018 * ''The Collected Image: Photography Portfolios'', Fitchburg Art Museum, Fitchburg, Massachusetts, October 6, 2018 – August 18, 2019 * ''Unlimited: Recent Gifts from the William Goodman and Victoria Belco Photography Collection (Group Show Curated by Sandra Phillips)'', UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Rim Archive, Berkeley, California, March 27-September 1, 2019

Collections

Kayafas's work is held in the following public collections: *

, Chicago, IL *

, Brooklyn, NY *

, Lincoln, MA *

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, Boston, MA *Joy of Giving Something (Dreyfus) Collection *Museum of the City of New York, NY *

, New York, NY *

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, Reno, NV *

, New Orleans, LA *

, New York, NY *

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, Providence, RI *

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, San Francisco, CA * UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

Publications

Books

* * * * * * * Kayafas, Peter; (2021) ''Coney Island Waterdance'' New York, NY: Purple Martin Press ISBN 978-0-97977-684-7

Other publications

* ''The Spirit of Family'', Albert and Tipper Gore. Holt, 2002 * ''Lincoln Kirstein: A Bibliography of Published Writings'', edited by Peter Kayafas.

Foundation, New York, 2007 * ''CIRCUS: The Photographs of Frederick W. Glasier'', edited by Peter Kayafas & Deborah W. Walk.

Foundation, New York, 2009 * ''“Coney Island Waterdance,”''

, Spring 2012 * ''THE AMERICANS LIST: By the Glow of the Jukebox (contributor)'', Red Hook Editions, Brooklyn, 2012 * ''“Mexico City: Hope is a Kiss,”''

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No. 22, pages 17–19, April, 2013 * ''“A Treasure in Our Midst: The Great Circus Photographs of Frederick W. Glasier,”'' by Peter Kayafas, Cigar City Magazine, pages 24–31, Fall 2013 * ''LEE FRIEDLANDER: THE PRINTED PICTURE.'' Edited by Stephen Hilger and Peter Kayafas, The Pratt Photography Department and Libraries and

Foundation, Brooklyn and New York, 2014 * ''‘O, Write My Name’: American Portraits, Harlem Heroes, Photographs by Carl Van Vecthen'', Edited by

and Peter Kayafas, Eakins Press Foundation, New York, 2015. * ''PETER KAYAFAS: ECOS (exhibition catalogue)'', Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana, Mexico City, 2016. * ''“Review of The Hour of Land by Terry Tempest Williams”'', Aperture Magazine Photobook Review, November, 2016. * ''Pilgrimage: Photographs by Mary Frank. Edited and sequenced by Mary Frank and Peter Kayafas'',

Foundation, New York, 2017. * '' Bystander: A History of Street Photography'',

Joel Meyerowitz Joel Meyerowitz (born March 6, 1938) is an American street, portrait and landscape photographer. He began photographing in color in 1962 and was an early advocate of the use of color during a time when there was significant resistance to the id ...

and

Colin Westerbeck Colin Leslie Westerbeck Jr. is a curator, writer, and teacher of the history of photography. Before moving to Los Angeles, where he has taught at UCLA and University of Southern California, USC, he was curator of photography at the Art Institute ...

. Laurence King. London, 2017. * ''Stephen Shore: Elements'', Edited and sequenced by

and Peter Kayafas,

Foundation, New York, 2019. * ''PhotoWork: Forty Photographers on Process and Practice'', Edited by Sasha Wolf. Aperture, New York, 2019. * ''Object Lesson: On the Influence of Richard Benson.'' (Contributor) Aperture, New York, NY 2022

References

External links

Official websitePeter Kayafas on Sasha Wolf Projects
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