Peter Kayafas is a photographer, publisher and teacher who lives in New York City where he is 
the director of the Eakins Press Foundation. He is a Guggenheim Fellow (2019). 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 Museum of the City of 
New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and the 
Art Institute of Chicago, among others. He taught photography at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn for 
21 years, and currently teaches at New York University. He is the co-chair of the 
Board of Directors of the Corporation of Yaddo, and chair of the Board of the PhotoWork 
Foundation. He has published five monographs: The Merry Cemetery of Sapanta (2007); O 
Public Road! Photographs of America (2009); Totems (2012); The Way West (2020); and 
Coney Island Waterdance (2021).