Carolyn Mendelsohn is an artist and portrait photographer whose practice is rooted in telling stories and amplifying those quieter voices through co-produced portraits. She is recognised internationally for her work with young people, including her portrait series, exhibition and book Being Inbetween (2020), a series of portraits and stories of girls aged between 10-12 years, and Through Our Lens , an initiative that was initially developed by Carolyn working with and for young people, during the pandemic. It is a workshop and mentoring programme that enables people to tell their stories through the medium of photography. It has become recognised by Arts Council England and curators internationally as a model of best practice.
Her work has been recognised, selected, collected and exhibited internationally, within solo and group shows including Impressions Gallery, Bradford, IWM London and Manchester, Galerie Huit Arles, France, She has been selected for the BJP’s Portrait of Britain and the RPS’s IPE, as well as winning first prize for the IPE 159, and being named the winner of the Portrait Series category for the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards . Her work has been widely published by the BBC, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Telegraph, Le Monde, the British Journal of Photography, and Photomonitor.
Carolyn is currently a freelance photographer and the artist in Residence for Born In Bradford, one of the largest health research studies in the world. She is working on BiB Age of Wonder – Teenage Stories – a seven-year project capturing the journey through adolescence and adulthood for teenagers in Bradford.
She is an Ambassador for Nikon Europe & The Royal Photographic Society and patron for Photo North.
