Peter Kayafas

Peter Kayafas is a photographer, publisher, curator and teacher who lives in New York City where he is the Director of the Eakins Press Foundation. His photographs have been widely exhibited, and are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art; the Brooklyn Museum of Art; The New York Public Library; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the New Orleans Museum of Art; and the DeCordova Museum, among others. He has taught photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn since 2000, and is the Vice Chairman of the Board of the Corporation of Yaddo. In addition to two other monographs (The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta and O Public Road! Photographs of America) his recent book Totems, with an essay by Jed Perl, is available from the Purple Martin Press.