Barbara Nitke Biography

Barbara Nitke is a New York photographer, best known for her exploration of intimate relationships. Her career has taken her from hardcore porn sets, to fetish porn, and into the private lives of BDSM lovers. Her recent series, The Luxe Motel, consists of constructed narratives exploring anxiety and desolation in the inhabitants of a low rent motel.  

She has shown her work extensively and published two monographs, Kiss of Fire and American Ecstasy. She has worked as a still photographer on all the major tv shows shot in New York, and has been on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts since 1992.

She is currently developing a feature film about a young woman navigating the twilight years of the Golden Age of Porn.