Published by the Streamway Trust Foundation, 2022–2024. Set of three softcover books, all 8 x 5 inches, 124–150 pages each. $30.00 plus shipping

These essay books collect the personal stories of workers in the field of photography, from educators to curators, gallerists to arts administrators, representing academia, commerce, artistic practice, publishing, and continually-evolving efforts to engage others in this evolving medium. The books are the tangible result of invited retreats bringing together professionals from various, often lesser-seen, backgrounds to together explore the life and ecosystem—the soup—of photography today.  

The series is edited by Photo Soup co-directors Alison Nordström and Diana C. Stoll. 

ALISON NORDSTRÖM is an independent scholar, writer, and curator specializing in photography, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Her long career in the field includes positions as Founding Director and Senior Curator of the Southeast Museum of Photography (FL), and Senior Curator of Photographs/Director of Exhibitions at George Eastman House (NY). Nordström has worked extensively with photographers and photographic institutions in Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and is widely published on photographic topics.

She has curated over one hundred photographic exhibitions in nine countries, including Lewis Hine; Truth/Beauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945; and Ideas in Things: Photography and Materiality. In 2015 and 2016 she was Artistic Director of Fotofestiwal Lodz, in Poland. She was the curator of Joan Fontcuberta: Crisis of History for the Hamburg (Germany) Photographic Triennial in 2018, and of FINDINGS: Photographs by Torben Eskerod, on view in 2020–21 at Fotografie Forum Frankfurt. She is currently a Research Associate in Photography at Harvard University. She holds a PhD in Cultural and Visual Studies.

DIANA C. STOLL is a writer, editor, and curator based in Asheville, North Carolina. She has stewarded scores of art and photography books to publication for cultural institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, and Aperture; and she served from 2004 to 2013 as Senior Editor of Aperture magazine. Among her recent editorial projects are monographs on Marcel Duchamp (MoMA, 2026), Lisette Model (Eakins, 2025), Jack Whitten (MoMA, 2025), Mary Ellen Mark (Steidl, 2020 and 2023), Josef Koudelka (Aperture, 2023), and Wolfgang Tillmans (MoMA, 2022).

She has contributed critical writings to many outlets, including Aperture, Hyperallergic, and Burnaway, and was a major contributor to Abbeville’s 2019 edition of A World History of Photography. Stoll’s curatorial endeavors include photo+sphere, a citywide photography event in Asheville; Altering Nature: Pictures of a Changing Environment (Tracey Morgan Gallery, 2018); and Black Mountain College and Mexico (Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center, 2023), for which she also co-authored the related book.