Learn how to fund your own photography book with Kickstarter, and get inspiration from photographers who successfully got their projects off the ground!
Presenters: Nancy Borowick Jake Naughton Sara Terry Jason Koxvold
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
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Have a photography book in mind, but don’t know how to fundraise or work with publishers? Running a Kickstarter campaign could help galvanize and grow your audience—and fund the first run of your book.
Hear from Kickstarter’s Thought Leader Nancy Borowick, and a group of photographers and publishers, on how they got their projects off the ground. Then get individual support for your own photography book project, to take it to the next step.
Nancy Borowick is an internationally renowned photographer, author, teacher, and speaker, bringing her personal stories to universities, hospitals, oncology units, and community groups globally.
Nancy is a Sony Artisan of Imagery and a graduate of the International Center of Photography. She has told the intimate stories of people and places from every corner of the globe, winning her major accolades and awards such as World Press Photo, Pictures of the Year International, and most recently, the Humanitarian Award from the organization Women That Soar for her photography and recent monograph, The Family Imprint.
Over the last decade, Nancy has narrowed the focus of her work, telling stories of health, struggle, and personal relationships, using compassion, humility, and trust as tools to connect with her subjects and explore their lives. Her work has been featured in numerous newspapers and magazines, including The New York Times, National Geographic, NPR, Time magazine, CNN, Bloomberg, Stern magazine, and the Wall Street Journal.
Originally from New York, Nancy resides on the island of St. John in the USVI with her husband, two sons, and island dog Einstein.
Jake Naughton When We Were Strangers 278 Backers, $25,047 Raised
Jake Naughton is a Mexico City-based visual artist and journalist making work about queer identity in the present moment.
This takes the form of long-term, in-depth projects like This is How the Heart Beats, about East Africa’s LGBTQ community, Both Sides of the Veil, which showcases a strange limbo for India’s queer community, or When We Were Strangers, which explores and deconstructs love through the prism of his own relationship with his partner.
Alongside his artistic practice, he makes commissioned work for editorial and commercial clients like Airbnb, The New York Times, WIRED Magazine, Instagram, and more.
Sara Terry (1955-2025) was a documentary photographer, filmmaker, and educator whose work focuses on how we define our humanity, and the role of community in creating that definition. She was a Guggenheim Fellow in Photography, a Sundance Documentary Fellow, and a contributing photographer to VII Foundation, publishing two books of photography and directing three feature-length documentary films. In 2024, she was named to Forbes Women’s 50 Over 50 list. A former reporter for The Christian Science Monitor and freelance magazine writer, Sara picked up a still camera in the late 1990s at a time when she lost her faith in words and never looked back.
Sara was an uncommonly generous teacher, mentor, and supporter of other photographers. While working on Aftermath: Bosnia’s Long Road to Peace, a project about the period following the 1992-95 war in Bosnia and Hercegovina, Sara came to believe that “war is only half the story.” She founded a nonprofit, The Aftermath Project, to help photographers tell the stories that follow conflict—of what it takes to rebuild lives and homes, to restore civil societies, to address the lingering wounds of war, and create new avenues for peace. Since 2007, The Aftermath Project has given more than $750,000 in grants to photographers.
Jason Koxvold is an artist and photographer based between Brooklyn and upstate New York. He runs Gnomic Book which prints books by photographic artists.
His work has been in WIRED, Financial Times Magazine, Esquire, Wallpaper*, Newsweek Japan, National Geographic Traveler, Slate, and more. He has had solo exhibitions at the Corner Store Gallery, Sydney, NSW, and Gnomic Book, New York City.
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