Nina Welch-Kling is a New York City-based photographer originally from a small town in southern Germany. Her background in architecture and design, combined with her love of roaming city streets, informs her often mysterious photographic depictions of everyday life.
Welch-Kling earned a B.F.A. from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1990 and a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1993. She has lived in New York City since 1995, where she and her husband raised their two daughters.
In 2020, Welch-Kling received the LensCulture Critics' Choice Award and was a finalist in the LensCulture Street Photography Competition. Her work has been featured in many international photography exhibitions, as well as numerous magazines and online publications, including The Guardian, The Eye of the Photographer, British Journal of Photography, Dazed, Musée Magazine, and TheModernMet.com. In 2021, she was one of eight women named a Hasselblad Heroine. Welch-Kling's first monograph, Duologues, was published by Kehrer Verlag in late 2022. In 2024, Duologues was solo exhibited at the Kunsthalle/Kunstsalong Schweinfurt, Germany and in 2025, at the VHS Gallery in Stuttgart.
