For over 35 years Jeff Mermelstein has been a prolific street photographer whose books include Sidewalk (Dewi Lewis, 1999), No Title Here (powerHouse, 2003), Twirl/Run (powerHouse, 2009), Hardened (Morel Books, 2019), Arena (TBW Books, 2019) and #nyc (Mack, 2020). He is the recipient of an Aaron Siskind Foundation Fellowship and the European Publishers Award for Photography. Mermelstein has been on the teaching faculty of the International Center of Photography in New York since 1987. His work has been published in many magazines including The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, Aperture, DoubleTake, Newsweek, Esquire, Stern and Vanity Fair. Jeff Mermelstein’s photographs are in the permanent collections of The Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, The Whitney Museum of American Art, and the International Center of Photography, amongst others.