Barbara Nitke
Barbara Nitke is a New York City artist who has been exploring issues of sexual relationship
through photography since 1982. She is the current president of the Camera Club of New York
(founded in 1884 by Alfred Stieglitz) and is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts in
New York. Her work has been the subject of one-woman exhibitions in New York, New Orleans,
Baltimore, Provincetown, Philadelphia and in Europe.
In addition to her active work in photography, Barbara Nitke is a frequent lecturer on the
topic of SM to both practitioners and the general public. She is a member of TES and the Lesbian
Sex Mafia. Barbara has also been the featured artist and official Leo Educator's Award from TES and
in 2001 received the President's Choice Award for community service from the Pantheon of Leather.