Kate is a photographer, educator, speaker and writer.  Her photographic work tells stories about family, memory and forgetting, blending metaphors in woodland landscapes with observational, portrait and archival imagery.

Much of Kate’s work is sparked by her experience of caring for her grandmother, aunt and mother through the years of their dementia.  It speaks to universal themes of love, loss, and the passing of people and time.  The work has been exhibited internationally, and has featured in various print and online publications, including her own photobook Kaleidoscope.  She is based in the UK.

Kate has studied English and Modern Languages, Education, Law and Photography. She has worked as a teacher and trainer in the UK and internationally. Her love of photography stems from a childhood in her parents’ darkroom.

To enquire about print and book sales, talks and workshops, commissions, collaborations and exhibitions, please get in touch via the contact page, or email kate@katecarpenter.com.

Selected exhibitions

  • Salon/25. Photofusion. Brixton, London. January-February 2026.

  • Athens Photo Festival. Book Program. Shortlisted for Pick:24 Book Award. Benaki Museum, Athens. June-July 2024.

  • Ten. Shutter Hub. Tenth anniversary exhibition. May-June 2024.

  • Blurred Visions. LoosenArt, Rome. April-May 2024.

  • Human Nature. Glasgow Gallery of Photography. November 2023.

  • End of Year Exhibition. Glasgow Gallery of Photography. December 2023.

  • Trees. PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont. July-August 2022.

  • Family and Other Ties. Family Ties Network, University for the Creative Arts, Farnham. October-December 2022.

  • Open. Shutter Hub, Gallery Café, Bethnal Green. September-October 2021.

  • The Poetry of the Ordinary. PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont. March-April 2021.

Selected interviews, talks, panels

  • On Kaleidoscope, Photobook Café, 2 March 2026

  • Rare Space, Rare Dementia Support. Online. May 2024

  • Shakes of the Kaleidoscope: family, photography and the fragmentation of memory. At Vestiges of Memory: intersections between photography and autobiographical memory. UCA Canterbury. : 18 July 2024.

Selected publications and features

  • Photobook. Kaleidoscope. Self-published. 2023.

  • Article. Royal Photographic Society, Women in Photography Group: We Are magazine.

  • Source Magazine Graduate Photography Online. 2023.

  • Shutter Hub Yearbook 2023.

  • Poignant Pics no. 67. One Twelve Projects. Online. 2022.

  • Shutter Hub Yearbook 2022

  • Shutter Hub Yearbook 2021

  • Shutter Hub Yearbook 2020

Education

MA Photography, Falmouth University, 2023

LLB (Graduate Diploma in Law and Legal Practice Course), University of Law, 2010

MA Education, Open University, 2000

Postgraduate Certificate in Education, University of Cambridge, 1994

BA (Hons) English and Modern Languages (German), University of Oxford, 1993