NYC SALT

Sorry if we’re being a little aggressive... but please respect our students, okay? 🧐📚

Today’s Xulibook is dedicated to our Advanced Photobook students:
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Noah, Heidi, Addie, Masa, Maxwell, and Kyle.
Special mention also for Cassius and Prodige, who are not on the video but also made a great a Photobook. 🫡

Over the past few months, they’ve explored different approaches to photobook experimenting with binding techniques, layouts, sequencing, text, materials, and storytelling. 📖

Thanks to the guidance of Tony White, each student developed a completely unique project, proving that there isn’t just one way to make a photobook. ✨

We’re incredibly proud of what they’ve created. Not only are they talented photographers, but they’re also thoughtful artists with stories worth sharing. 📸

You can enjoy these books, as well as a wide selection of our students’ photographic works, all summer long at the in New York.

This wouldn’t be possible without , thank you for helping make this project possible.🙏

Which book would you pick up first? 👀✨

How to find the End Of the Year Show of NYC Salt:🤔

🗓️𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧?
June 2nd (Preview night for VIP)
June 3rd (Opening night)

📍𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞?
Affirmation Arts gallery
415 W 13th St
FL 8
New York, NY 10014

🕐𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐢𝐦𝐞?
5:30 pm - 9:00pm

If you don’t have tickets yet👉RSVP on our bio 👀

What can a hand say about a person? 👀✋

Today’s Xulibook is MANUAL: The Personality of Hands by Bill Westheimer

We’re NYC SALT, and this is 𝓧𝓾𝓵𝓲𝓫𝓸𝓸𝓴𝓼 📚✨
a space where we share unique and inspiring photobooks by artists from around the world.

This book transforms hands into portraits.

Over the course of three years, Westheimer photographed 150 people from surgeons and artists to magicians and musicians using a mix of 19th-century photographic techniques with early digital editing processes to create something that feels both scientific and deeply human.

Each portrait combines:
a photograph of the hand,
a handprint made in the darkroom,
and handwritten words from the subject themselves.

The result?
Portraits without faces… that somehow feel incredibly personal.

The more you look at the fingerprints, gestures, wrinkles, pressure marks, and handwriting… the more each hand starts telling its own story. 👀✨

Follow for more Photobooks 📚

NYC Salt Class of 2026!🎓

Congratulations to our seniors!!

We’re proud of what you’ve built and excited to see what you do next. Thank you for everything you brought to Salt.

Adelaide, Noah, Aiden, Cassius, Masamitsu, Maxwell, Prodige, Kyle, Nevaeh, Desmond, Shimla, Layla, Geleena, Sharaf, Ji-won, Wenjing, Katrina, Mia, Dylan, Camila, Thu, and David.

All of our seniors have a plan for what comes next, and we couldn’t be prouder. Here’s where they’re headed.

NYC Salt End of Year Show 2025-26📸🧂

Our End of Year Show is proof that a photograph can change the way you see the world, and that the right mentorship, tools, and guidance can turn a student into an amazing storyteller.

Please join us as we showcase the work of students who, over the past school year, learned, experimented, and grew as photographers, discovering their voice, training their eye, and understanding what it means to communicate through their images.

Join us as we celebrate their talent.

🗓️When: Wednesday, June 3, 6–9 PM 
📍Where: Affirmation Arts, 415 W 13th St, New York, NY 10011

RSVP through the link in bio.

This year’s show will also feature a selection of handmade photobooks from our new bookbinding course and a celebration of our graduating seniors. All prints will be for sale.

See you there!