Umbrage Editions

Specialties

photography exhibitions, high-​quality and award-​winning photography and visual arts books, a small selection of children’s books

History

Established in 1991.

Umbrage Editions, based in DUMBO, Brooklyn, produces high-​quality visual books, traveling exhibitions, and multimedia projects, including, most recently, educational guides, an online chat series, award-​winning websites, a theater play, and a PBS documentary film. Umbrage Editions creates content-​rich products, bringing them from their initial conception to development and final production. Umbrage projects vary in subject matter from classic photojournalism to cutting-​edge art, from pop culture to global human rights, from the closets of drag queens to the runways of fashion.

Meet the Business Owner

Nan R.

Business Owner

Nan has worked as an editor, writer, and curator for over twenty years on nearly two hundred book titles at Aperture, Random House, and Chanticleer Press, as well as with museums and small publishers in the United States and Europe, including DIA, The Renaissance Society, The Milwaukee Art Museum, the Musee d’Orsay, and The Victoria and Albert.

She founded an artistic, socially conscious, and photojournalism-​oriented publishing company called Umbrage Editions (formerly a packager known as Umbra and specializing in visual books) in 1991, and has published nearly seventy books under the imprint. Among the recent titles are: Pandemic: Facing Aids, Anthony Fry, Speak Truth to Power, Louise Dahl Wolfe: A Retrospective, Blood and Honey: A Balkan War Journal, RFK Funeral Train, Havana: The Revolutionary Moment, Raising The Bar: New Horizons in Disability Sport, Green Card Stories, and A Girl and Her Room.