The Soho Photo Gallery was established in 1971 by a group of New York Times photographers as an alternative to commercial galleries. It is now the only non-profit cooperative photography gallery in New York City. Soho Photo is completely run by its members who direct, operate and financially support the Gallery. Among the well-known photographers who have exhibited here are Andre Kertesz, Ansel Adams, Jill Freedman, Joel Sternfeld and Jill Enfield. The Gallery is regularly featured in local newspapers, trade and national publications.

We host eleven monthly exhibitions of work by our members and invited guest artists. Our exhibition space offers room for four solo exhibitors on the main floor. Additional space is designated for spotlight exhibitions and group shows. The mezzanine is reserved for guest artists and special exhibitions. We also present seminars, hands-on workshops, guest lecturers and events dealing with photographic techniques and issues, such as palladium printing, Polaroid transfers, pinhole photography, and digital technology.

The Gallery sponsors three juried annual national events. The well-known Krappy Kamera® Competition is devoted to photographs taken with plastic, toy or homemade cameras. Our National Competition is open to all photographic techniques. The Alternative Processes Competition features images printed by any process other than gelatin silver or digital, such as platinum, palladium, cyanotype, etc.

Alessandro Busa is a Florence-born photographer who has studied photography in Berlin and New York. He specialises in gritty architecture and street photography and studio portraits, especially in black and white. Busa freelances for Getty Images and his photography work has been published in the USA, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Italy and the UK.

Photography portfolio - Contemporary Urban Photography, Portrait, Architecture, Lifestyle, Street, Cityscapes, Photojournalism, Documentary Photography