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ASMP PhotoBook Fair in NYC Dec. 11
Join us on Thursday, December 11th, for the 2nd Annual ASMP Pop-up PhotoBook Fair.
This year we are being hosted by one of the city’s most iconic photo stores: B&H PhotoVideo, located within the trendy Chelsea and Hudson Yards neighborhoods, on the West Side of Manhattan.
Explore projects that span New York City architecture, intimate reflections on a Buddhist practice, atmospheric studies of the Hudson River, bold expressions in fashion photography, and many other compelling subjects. From handcrafted editions to fully realized monographs, each book reflects a unique vision and a deep commitment to the photographic medium.
Whether you’re a collector, enthusiast, fellow photographer, or simply curious, the fair is an open invitation to meet the artists, browse their award winning work, and discover new perspectives through the power of the photobook.
We look forward to welcoming you and celebrating the creativity that continues to shape our organization’s legacy.
MEET THE AUTHORS
Peter Arcese is a writer, photographer, and teacher whose work explores the enduring resonance of classical literature in the modern world. For over twenty-five years, he has taught classic and contemporary literature at New York University. His poetry and translations have appeared in the New York Quarterly and the Gallatin Review, and he is the translator of Aeschylus’s Agamemnon into syllabic verse. His photography, rooted in documentary and poetic traditions, was included in the International Center of Photography’s Concerned: Images of Social Distancing project and published in the accompanying book. He lives and works in New York, where he continues to pursue projects that draw connections across time, language, and expression.
Mitchell earned an a MFA in Photography, from Pratt Institute, and has worked as NY based location scout and manager for print and TV commercials. He has been showing his work for the past 10 years, and is actively editing his 1st photo book.
Wayne Chasan is a renowned architectural and resort photographer, specializing in creating stunning interior and exterior images for clients worldwide.
With his inspired vision, he infuses magic and emotion into the images he creates. His masterful touch enhances the beauty of any place or moment. Decades of experience and his innate talent for capturing beauty guarantee exceptional results, regardless of the conditions. A professional with boundless energy and enthusiasm, his passion, perfectionism, and productivity always translate his clients’ products or concepts into powerful images. A Yankee with an Andalusian heart, Wayne spent part of his childhood in Spain before settling in Marbella in 1983. Forty years later, he considers Marbella his adopted home, his home, and that of his family.
He has witnessed and participated in the city’s development, largely shaping Marbella’s image for decades and contributing those photographs to the book “Marbella: An Urban Case Study.” He loves all things Spanish, music, and spending time with his family and friends.
Among his accolades are the Best Photography Award at the “IV Marbella City Media Awards” for his published photographs of Marbella and his long and distinguished career, and the “Andalusian Business Promotion” award granted by the Regional Government of Andalusia. This year he was recently honored with several awards from the American Society of Photographers (ASMP) and the Spanish Association of Photographers (AFPE).
In addition to his work for Elle Decor, Condé Nast, Time, Canon, Warner Bros., and countless other multinational clients, for the past two decades he has been the executive photographer and external consultant for all imagery aspects of a worldwide corporation. In short, a consummate professional with a thousand stories and anecdotes to tell.
Some of my work involves story building for local organizations, nonprofits and small businesses, often collaborating directly with people in the community or at their place of business, in Cleveland and New York City. I also contribute to national and international campaigns with a team on location.
Steve Dreyer is a fine art photographer based in New York City and Eastern Long Island, New York. His work is regularly shown in juried and group exhibits and is on display in fine art galleries. His photography is represented by Gallery 71 (www.gallery71.com), The Works Gallery, and is available at Saatchi Art. Steve’s images were selected for the production set of the popular series “The Affair” on the Showtime television network.
“Making images is one of my greatest passions. It allows me to experience my surroundings and use my imagination. For me, it’s a vehicle for capturing the beauty of a place or object, a feeling, a thought, an activity and others’ interactions with their world. A photograph is a moment in time that provides us with a recording, that once passed, is a keepsake for us to relish forever.”
– Steve Dreyer
Like many of today’s fine art photographers, Steve originally used film and a darkroom to create his images. He eventually transitioned to digital cameras and processing to make his stylized photographs – always acknowledging that vision, composition, lighting and the story to be told is more important to the art than the tools to create it. He is of the school and is inspired by the work of other photographers such as Steve McCurry, Ansel Adams, Edward Weston and Michael Kenna.
About the Book: Using a hand held mirror in locations around New York award winning photographer Stefan Falke invites distant buildings, structures or other visuals into the main photo to create a viewing experience that requires a second look. At times the reflection in the mirror becomes the main photo. His goal is to visually loosen up the obvious, to create images that will surprise and intrigue the viewer, and himself. Photos from this series were published in WIRED online, chosen by American Photography, featured by LensCulture and received The Award of Excellence from Communication Arts for books in 2025.
Beauty can be found in the artifacts of all cultures even if it has recently become suspect in some circles by those interested in using art for didactic purposes. Yet for me Beauty remains central. A work of art is successful if it shows the person viewing it a Beauty they had not seen before. This is less about novelty, which in our image saturated world probably does not exist, and more about seeing the everyday in a new light. Whatever the subject of the work shown here in other words, whatever these images depict, this work is about form and tone and movement. These things, not a particular landscape or species of fish are what I aim to document. As the artist Ian Roberts writes subject matter is nothing more than an armature supporting a deeper vision. In this way, my aim is to produce photographs that transcend their subject matter.
To form, tone, and movement, I have lately tried to add an element of evanescence to my work, something I believe that is unique to photography as a visual art. We see it in fleeting moments of light, gesture, and motion. It is present in Cartier-Bresson, in diCorcia’s well known Times Square images and, in Joanne Verberg’s portraits of her husband. Singling it out addresses very directly, the problem of chaos Adam’s writes about because it allows us to see the Beauty that inheres in change, which is, of course, the fundamental condition of all existence. Jazz improvisation does much the same thing, and I am equally drawn to it.
For me, the physicality of a photograph, its status as an object in the world, is part of this. A photograph should be something one can call upon as a reminder of the existence of the Beauty that goes unnoticed. In this way, a photograph, or any work of art for that matter, should appear as new to the viewer each time he or she encounters it framed on the wall in a hallway, or in a folio when it is taken out and studied. While a photograph will never have the permanence of a work of sculpture, its physical nature serves to underscore its own importance and more than that, the importance of noticing.
Constance H. Halporn’s (Connie) photographs have appeared in countless presentations and publications for the physicians of the world-renowned Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City. She began her career as a Medical photographer in the Audio Visual Services department in October of 1981. This was the time when actual slides and prints were produced using film and photo paper in wet darkrooms. She created thousands upon thousands of slide to support the Medical school, and the fine research being done at Columbia. She had the privilege of working with Dr. John Lattimer taking the photos and making the prints that appeared in his book about Hitler( Hitler’s Fatal Sickness and Other Secrets of the Nazi Leaders). Amusingly, one of the first artifacts she photographed for him was ‘supposedly’ Neapolitan’s foreskin, which was in the Urology department. She worked with Dr. Sadek Hilal, and made prints of his first sodium imaging of the brain for a landmark academic paper. Over all, she had the honor of working with some of the best and brightest Doctors/researchers of the day. Dr. Charles Neer (she produced most of the photos for his seminal book on should reconstruction) , Dr. Robert C. Carroll, the brilliant hand surgeon, Dr. Osterman, Dr. Mel Rosenwasser, and Dr. Harold Dick to name just a few. At the same time, she was making photos for US Judo, teaching Judo at Columbia University’s main campus and making photos for The Center for Thanatology Research and Education, her mother’s nonprofit.
For years, her photography graced the pages of the United States Judo, Inc.’s journal US Judo Times. Constance has photographed two Olympics, covering the Judo competition in Barcelona and as the official photographer for USA Judo in Atlanta where she also was a member of the Press Liaison team that produced the Press conferences following each day’s matches. She was also the official photographer for the American-Canadian Judo Challenge, and the videographer for USA Judo at the World Championships for Judo in Barcelona, Spain.
The Center for Thanatology used her photographs to give life to countless exhibitions, including: “Vox Populi: Memorials by The People,” an interactive exhibition of various public memorials that have appeared spontaneously after many tragedies. Her photos taken in New York City after the 9/11 were the cornerstones of the exhibition. Constance has also helped craft of 24 successful grants for The Center.
The recipient of a Master’s degree and then an MFA in Media Arts at Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY, Constance took on the role of graduate assistant for the department’s Internship program while at the university. In this position she assisted students in creating cover letters and resumes to present themselves in the best possible light to prospective employers. After graduation she has continued supporting the Media Arts department in this role as an Alumni volunteer.
Constance retired from the Columbia University Medical Center in December 2020 to pursue her first love, Fine Arts photography.
Bruce taught at the International Center of Photography in New York and served on the Board of Directors of ASMP. His classic New York portfolio was honored as the Best of ASMP for 2014. He has recently exhibited at Inwood Arts, Alice Austen House Museum, Photoville, and the Arsenal Gallery in NYC. Bruce is a 2023 New York State Council on the Arts grantee for his exhibition Past/Present at the Morris-Jumel Mansion museum in Mannhattan. The New York Historical Society recently acquired several images from his City Limits project for the museum’s permanent collection. His book for Princeton Architectural Press SKY-HIGH, A Cririque of NYC’s Supertall Towers from Top to Bottom was published in 2023.
Nancy A. Scherl is a fine art portrait photographer based in New York City. She distinguishes between her staged portraiture series and her visual stories–the former being social commentary; the latter being social documentary. Stylistically, Nancy emulates cinema verite’ and incorporates Cartier Bresson’s ‘decisive moment.’ In her documentary work, she blurs the boundaries between pictorial, social documentary and street genres. Nancy completed an MFA in Photography, Video and Related Media at New York City’s School of Visual Arts, following her undergraduate studies in documentary and fine art photography at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is a Life Member of the American Society of Media Photographers, where she served as a board member from 2016 to 2019. Nancy served as board member of the Katonah Museum Artist’s Association in Katonah, NY (2017-2024) as President emerita, (2020-2022), as well as Treasurer, Archivist and Co-Chair of Programs. She founded, produced and moderated SHOP-TALK, a round table discussion series about art, produced for the KMAA. Scherl has exhibited globally including at FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, PX3 Espace Beaurepaire, A Smith Gallery, Praxis Gallery, Photoplace Gallery, South X Southeast, Southeast Center for Photography, The Katonah Museum of Art, The Hammond Museum and the Griffin Museum of Photography. She is a two time finalist of Photolucida Critical Mass Top 200 (2019, 2023) and is the recipient of many other awards such as: Arthur Griffin Legacy Award, International Color Awards, The Tokyo International Foto Awards, Budapest International Foto Awards, PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris, International Photography Awards, and was an Overall Winner of the Julia Margaret Cameron –The World Wide Photography Gala Awards where she had a solo show in Barcelona.
Thomas is the author of the books The Business of Fine Art Photography, Routledge, New York, and The Fashion Image for Bloomsbury Publishing, London, with an upcoming book co-authored with Microsoft BING and AI team leader Derrick Connell due out in early 2026. He is also an Editor at Large for IRKmagazine, a Paris based print publication and website, Board Member for the Santa Fe CENTER for Photographic Art, and past Photography Program Director at Parsons School of Design in New York. He is the former owner of Thomas Werner Gallery in Manhattan’s Chelsea Art District, and a former National Board member and New York Chapter President for the American Society of Media Photographers. As well as a former Advisory Board Member for Ithaca College’s Executive Education Program, contributor to Adobe’s Lightroom Academy, and a photography consultant for COACH, among others.
As an exhibiting artist Thomas was represented by galleries in New York and Los Angeles, and his work reviewed in The New Yorker Magazine.
Werner led a team developing a media and literacy website for the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations/UNESCO and was a recurring instructor for the United Nations Education First Summer School. From 2005 – 2019 he worked with the United States Department of State on cultural projects in Russia partnering with 32 cultural, educational, and governmental organizations to develop projects in 29 cities. Partners have included; The State Hermitage Museum, the National Center of Contemporary Art, Perm Regional Government, The Moscow Biennale for Young Art, National Centre of Photography for the Russian Federation, The Central State Archive of Film, Photographic and Phonographic Documents, The Moscow Biennale, and others.
His private collection of Russian photographs and artifacts have been exhibited internationally. Currently a creative consultant, Thomas works one on one with students, creatives, businesses, cultural institutions, and not for profits, helping them with career development, team management, innovation, education, professional practices, and the development of effective communication across multiple media platforms.
When: December 11, 2025
Where: B&H PhotoVideoAudio SuperStore, 420 9th Avenue, between 33rd and 34th Streets
Time: 12 noon until 6 pm
Thank you B&H for your generous support :
