About Alexander C. Kafka
(Scroll down to view various projects.) Alexander C. Kafka is a journalist, photographer, and composer in Bethesda, Maryland. Kafka is art director for SmokeLong Quarterly magazine. He created the cover image for "Lost Addresses: New and Selected Poems," by Diann Blakely (Salmon Poetry, 2017), and shot the poet photo for Doritt Carroll's "Sorry, You Are Not an Instant Winner" (Kattywompus Press, 2017). His work has also been published at All Things Fashion DC, BuzzFeed, Fast Company, Juked, Vice, The Washington Post, The Writing Disorder, and many other periodicals. He has been on the documentation team for the Washington Folk Festival at Glen Echo. Kafka studied fine-art figure photography with Missy Loewe at the Washington School of Photography and portrait photography with Sora DeVore at Glen Echo Photoworks.
Two blockbuster exhibitions—and their accompanying catalogues—form the basis of this extended look back on one of the most influential photographers of the late 20th century.
