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A new hardcover version of my latest self published and multi award winning book REFLECTING NEW YORK is now available, right on time for the Holidays, along with the softcover and the larger format 'Collectors Edition' versions. 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.  Hardcover, Standard Landscape, 10×8 in (25×20 cm), 66 pages, 59 color photographs.  With an introduction by New York Culture Journalist Claudia Steinberg. >>> The book received the Award of Excellence from Communication Arts and an Honorable Mention from International Photography Awards. Photos from this series were featured by WIRED online, LensCulture, ProPhotoDaily, American Photographyand Suzanne Paul Sease on APhotoEditor. Frank Meo presented the book on his legendary PROJECTIONS. <<<

A word about my self published books:  The traditional photo book publishing world has dramatically changed and photographers are now pretty much responsible for the costs of the design and printing of their books even with a publisher involved. That can easily amount to tens of thousands of dollars, depending on size and quality etc. Those costs are usually not recovered. Self publishing with online platforms like BLURB has become a great alternative for me because there aren't any upfront costs and no storage, they print every single ordered book on demand, one at a time. Which means these books are far more expensive than traditionally published book, which are printed by the hundreds or thousands at a time.  The price is high, too high you might say, but we photographers work many months and sometimes years to produce the photography for a book, and then we keep working on every aspect of it before we send the printed result out into the world, hoping that the uniqueness of our visual ideas and stories will find an open eyed friend like yourself.  Preview and/or order (and let me know if you did, I'd like to hear from you!!) www.blurb.com/b/12090895-reflecting-new-york-softcover www.blurb.com/b/12617718-reflecting-new-york-hardcover www.blurb.com/b/12276784-reflecting-new-york-collectors-edition (the popular and also multi award winning KEEP GOING NEW YORK book is still available as softcover: www.blurb.com/b/11749106-keep-going-new-york )

Museum Quality Prints available

If you would rather see my photographs on a wall in your home or office:  A selection of my award winning photos from the book are now available as museum quality prints  Please visit  stefanfalkephotography-wallart.com

All photos in this newsletter © Stefan Falke

Stefan Falke Photography  New York City www.stefanfalke.com stefanfalkephotography-wallart.com stefanfalke@mac.com (+1) 917 - 214 9029  member of laif photo agency

Reflecting New York honored as finalist by LensCulture Street Photography Awards 2025

 

Great News — my ‘Reflecting New York’ series is amongst the Street Photography Awards 2025 finalists. The poster announcing the awards winners and finalists is mine too … yay !!

All winners: https://www.lensculture.com/.../street.../2025/winners

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Communication Arts Award of Excellence 2025

 

My work got the attention of Communication Arts in 2021 and again earlier this year; now both of my two self-published New York books have received CA's Award of Excellence and photos from the books were published in their Photography Annual 62 and 66 (see below). Communication Arts is the largest international trade journal of visual communication.  All this makes me a very happy  German-American New York photographer !! (See more awards for my NYC photography here my Reflecting New York gallery here and Keep Going New York gallery here)

See my winning entries from 2025:  https://www.commarts.com/project/37881/reflecting-new-york and 2021 https://www.commarts.com/project/33016/keep-going-new-york

Reflecting New York book: https://www.blurb.com/b/12090895-reflecting-new-york Collectors edition book: https://www.blurb.com/b/12276784-reflecting-new-york-collectors-edition Keep Going New York book: https://www.blurb.com/b/11749106-keep-going-new-york

Reflecting New York - on REFLECTIONS

 

Reflecting New York - on REFLECTIONS !! I'll present my recent book project Reflecting New York during one of  Frank Meo's - The Photocloser - REFLECTIONS on Wednesday, April 23rd, at 7pm together with photographers Jaye Matt and Joe Patronite. Check out Frank's channel on YouTube with dozens of photographer's recorded presentations !! It is definitely one of the best photography sites around. Here is the Zoom link to the evening , or send me an email and I send it to you.  I would love to see you there !!

Two new Awards for Reflecting New York

 

Two new Awards !!

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY and COMMUNICATION ARTS   awarded photos from my latest book "Reflecting New York", for which I photographed locations in my chosen hometown with a handheld mirror ... I am very grateful and honored to receive these awards !!

My previous book "Keep Going New York !!" received the same honors in 2021. I self-published both books on the 'print on demand' platform blurb.com, New York culture journalist Claudia Steinberg wrote the introductions to both books. I invite you to visit my blurb profile to preview and/or order them.

There is more to my Garfunkel & Garfunkel - Father and Son cover

 

There is more to my  Garfunkel & Garfunkel - Father and Son cover !! I posted this cover before but only now did I get to see the double spreads inside the LP album and the accompanying booklet !! As I have said before, it was a great honor to shoot the cover for Art Garfunkel, one of the biggest name in music history, and his son Art Garfunkel Jr. for their wonderful father and son project. The album was released by BMG/Telamo on November 8th 2024.  More photos on my website.