Kate’s photographer parents brought her up with a love of photography. She studied English and German, and has taught in schools and colleges in the UK, Germany and Belgium. Kate also has an MA in Education and a Law degree, has worked as an advice centre volunteer, and run private and pro-bono photography workshops.

Kate recently completed an MA in Photography with Falmouth University. Her work tells stories about family, memory and forgetting, blending metaphors in woodland landscapes with documentary, portrait and archival imagery. Much of it is rooted in her experience of caring for her grandmother, aunt and mother through the years of their dementia.

Kate’s photographic work has been exhibited in the UK and beyond, and has featured in various print and online publications, including her own recent photobook Kaleidoscope. She is based in the UK.

To enquire about commissions, collaborations, talks, tuition or workshops, email kate@katecarpenter.com.

Selected exhibitions

  • Athens Photo Festival. Book Program. Shortlisted for Pick:24 Book Award. Benaki Museum, Athens. Upcoming: 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 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

Selected interviews, talks, panels

  • Rare Space, Rare Dementia Support. Online. May 2023

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