1979 yılında New
Mexico’da doğdu. Colorado Üniversitesi’nde gazetecilik eğitimi aldı.
Profesyonel kariyerine 2003 yılında Panama’da Assocated Press’te başlayan Cook,
iki yıl sonra kişisel projelerini geliştirmek üzere Latin Amerika’ya yerleşti.
Bolivya’nın ilk yerli cumhurbaşkanı olan Evo Morales’in seçim kampanyası
üzerine fotoğraflar çekti. 2006’da İstanbul’a taşındı ve bir süre bu kentte
yaşadı. Memory of Trees projesi ile Aftermath Project Grant’ı almaya hak
kazandı. 2007’de, 30 yaş altındaki kadın fotoğrafçılara verilen Inge Morath
Ödülü’nü aldı. Çalışmaları, The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME,
Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report ve Stern
gibi yayınlarda yer buldu. Halen Roma’da yaşayan Cook, Agence VU ve
PROSPEKT Fotografi tarafından temsil ediliyor.
(http://www.krcphoto.com)
Kathryn Cook is a
documentary photographer whose current work focuses on memory and collective
consciousness in post-genocidal society. Her projects in Turkey, the Middle East, and Rwanda reflect
the historic character that developed through a peoples’ struggle to recover
their lives, and the impact it has on a society’s ability to move forward. Her
work confronts the post-war devastation of neglect and isolation and how it
transforms both the people and the land they inhabited.
Kathryn (b.1979)
grew up in New Mexico and graduated with a
B.S. in Journalism from the University
of Colorado at Boulder in December 2001.
Her professional
career began with the Associated Press in Panama
and after in Latin America where she documented the campaign trail and
political base of Evo Morales, Bolivia’s
first indigenous president. In September 2006 she moved to Istanbul, Turkey
where she initiated a long-term project on the memory of the disputed Armenian
genocide.
In 2007 Kathryn
was selected in as one of Photo District News (PDN) 30 Emerging Photographers
to Watch,in 2008 she wan The Aftermath Project grant, the Inge Morath Award and
the Enzo Baldoni Award, in 2009 the Enzo Baldoni Award with a collective
project of the Prospekt agency group.
In 2011 she is
recipient of Marseilles-Provence-2013 (European Union-initiated project) artist
residency, to continue her long-term work “Memory of Trees”.
Kathryn works were
exhibited at Noorderlicht Festival,
“Warzone” group exhibition; Rencontres
d’Arles, “La Nuit de l’Année” (Night of the Year); Reportage Atri Festival,
Atri, Italy; Lumix Photo Festival,
Hannover, Germany; Look3 Festival of the Photograph; San Fedele Gallery, Milan,
Italy; Save L’Aquila Project, Santa Monica, CA, USA; Sheehan Gallery at Whitman College, Walla
Walla, WA; The Gage Gallery, Chicago.
In 2011 she
was Participant in the Plat(t)form
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich,
Switzerland.
Her work has
appeared in publications including The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine,
TIME, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, Stern, and “D” La Repubblica
(Italy), Zoom, Io Donna (Italy).
Kathryn is based
in Rome.
