Carolyn Mendelsohn is an English portrait photographer.
Life and work
Mendelsohn originally trained and worked as an actor and film-maker, becoming a professional photographer in 2008.
In 2016 she won a gold medal in the
Royal Photographic Society
The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is the world's oldest photographic society having been in continuous existence since 1853. It was founded in London, England, in 1853 as th ...
's International Photography Exhibition (IPE 159) for ''Alice Being Inbetween'', part of her project "Being Inbetween" for which she is photographing girls aged 10 to 12;
this portrait was also selected for the 2017
Portrait of Britain, being one of 100 photographs which were displayed on billboards nationwide.
Her ''Maria, 10'' from the same project is included in IPE 160.
Each girl chooses her own clothes and pose. Mendelsohn says that girls of this age-group are "at a vulnerable stage and are often hidden within the cocoon of familial protection until they emerge as young women", and that "The series is a way of giving a voice and face to the girl I was and the girls who are; a way to explore the hidden complexity, duality and contradictions that mark this phase of life."
In 2024 Mendelssohn received an RPS (
The Royal Photographic Society
The Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain, commonly known as the Royal Photographic Society (RPS), is the world's oldest photographic society having been in continuous existence since 1853. It was founded in London, England, in 1853 as th ...
) Award for Photography with Young People.
Mendelsohn is a member of the Royal Photographic Society and the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers.
She is based in
Saltaire
Saltaire is a Victorian model village near Shipley, West Yorkshire, England, situated between the River Aire, the railway, and the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. Salts Mill and the houses were built by Titus Salt between 1851 and 1871 to allo ...
, West Yorkshire.
She has three children.
References
External links
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Profileat ''Be Inspired: Seamless''
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
21st-century English photographers
21st-century British women photographers
English women photographers
People from Shipley, West Yorkshire
Photographers from Yorkshire
21st-century English women
21st-century English people
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