Kevin Kunstadt & Nicholas Pollack

Teaches at Penumbra Foundation

NICHOLAS POLLACK (b. 1986, New York, NY) is a Brooklyn-based photographer. He received his MFA in Photography from the University of Hartford in 2015, and he earned a BLA in Photography and Literature from Sarah Lawrence College in 2010. Pollack has taught at the International Center of Photography, The Putney School, and he is currently an adjunct professor at the University of New Haven. 

His works have been exhibited internationally at venues including Kominek Gallery, Berlin, Germany; The Railway History Museum, Riga, Latvia; Baxter Street at The Camera Club of New York; The Barbara Walters Gallery, Bronxville, New York; The Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University. 

In 2016 he was nominated for an ICP Infinity Award, MACK First Book Award, and he was shortlisted at Self Publish Riga. He published a monograph of his celebrated project Nothing Gold Can Stay (2015) which is held in numerous collections including the Whitney Museum Library and the Getty Research Center. Publications that have featured his work include Juxtapoz Magazine, The Huffington Post, and Vice. http://nicholaspollack.com/

KEVIN KUNSTADT (b. 1982, New York, NY) is a photographer who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He received his BA in Visual Art from Brown University in 2004, and his MFA in photography from Hartford Art School’s international limited residency program in 2017. 

Kunstadt's work has been exhibited at such venues as: Jeff Bailey Gallery in New York City, Kominek Gallery in Berlin, GE World Headquarters, and Smith College, among others. His work has been published in countless print and online publications including National Geographic, TIME, WIRED, Bloomberg, and AI-AP's American Photography 27 and 31. His commercial photography clients include galleries, artists, and graphic, fashion, architecture, and industrial design firms throughout New York City. 

He also served as the co-founder and co-director of K&K Gallery in Brooklyn, NY for three years, with a focus on promoting the work of young and un-established photographers in the New York City area, and from around the world. Since 2010 he has produced several photographic projects in book form, on subjects as varied as: asphalt road re-surfacing, gunpowder, scrap metal, and “sneakers, bricks, and politics;” Most recently these have been nominated for the Mack First Book Award, and Shortlisted for the Kassel, Luma Rencontres, and Fiebre Dummy Awards. He recently collaborated with the Image Threads Collective to establish the first photo-book library in Havana, Cuba, and has been teaching Digital Photography at Marist College, in Poughkeepsie, NY.