Carolyn Mendelsohn is an artist and portrait photographer based in Yorkshire but working across the UK, whose practice is rooted in telling stories and amplifying those quieter voices through co-produced portraits. Her passion is to be able to connect and communicate with people of all ages and backgrounds, to create work that is strong, powerful and based on their lives and stories.
She is recognised internationally for her portraits, including her portrait series, exhibition and book Being Inbetween, a series of portraits and stories of girls aged between 10-12, (of which a selection was exhibited as part of The Northern Eye Festival in 2021) and is the founder of Through Our Lens, a workshop and mentoring programme that enables people to tell their stories through the medium of photography.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, with solo and group exhibitions in national galleries including Impressions Gallery, Bradford, The Imperial War Museum London, Galerie Huit Arles, France, The Royal Albert Hall, and In Galleries across the UK and Europe. She has been published by the BBC, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, La Monde, and British Journal of Photography, The Royal Photographic Society Journal amongst many others.
Carolyn’s awards include BJP Portrait of Britain 2017, 19, 21, 23 – Open Wall Arles winner 2020, The Kuala Lumpa International Portrait Awards 2021, The Royal Photographic Society International Photography exhibitions RPS IPE 159 gold and she was a finalist for RPS IPE 160. In 2020, Carolyn was named winner of the Portrait Series category for the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards. Carolyn was nominated for the Royal Photographic Society 100 heroines award.
Her monograph Being Inbetween was published by Bluecoat Press in November 2020,
She is a freelance photographer and artist in Residence for Born In Bradford, alongside this she works on personal projects, and portrait commissions.
Portraits from the series Being Inbetween ©Carolyn Mendelsohn
From the series Hardy and Free ©Carolyn Mendelsohn
TALK PHOTO is a fortnightly evening social event in Oriel Colwyn’s gallery space, where invited speakers are here IN PERSON to share presentations and insights about their work or projects, with a friendly intimate audience.
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