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.

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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 now college-aged daughters.

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While raising her children, Welch-Kling remained engaged in creative endeavors, ultimately rediscovering her passion for photography. She enrolled at the 92nd Street Y, where she developed a technical foundation before further refining her practice at the International Center of Photography. There, she established a mentorship with Christopher Giglio, who continues to provide critical guidance in shaping her artistic voice.

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In 2020, Welch-Kling received the LensCulture Critics' Choice Award and was also a finalist in the LensCulture Street Photography Awards. Her work has been featured in multiple 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 the fall of 2022. Most recently, from May through August 2024, her work was presented in a solo exhibition at Kunsthalle/Kunstsalong Schweinfurt in Germany.

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