Bio & News

Kathryn Cook is a documentary photographer whose current work focuses on memory and collective consciousness in post-genocidal society. Her work confronts the post-war devastation of neglect and isolation and how it transforms both the people and the land they inhabited.

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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 in June 2003. She left in 2005 to pursue personal projects 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 to pursue regional stories. Here she initiated a long-term project on the memory of the disputed Armenian genocide.

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).

Kathryn is based in Rome, Italy and represented by Agence VU' and PROSPEKT Fotografi (ITALY).

Exibitions / News :

2011/12 Recipient of Marseilles-Provence-2013 (European Union-initiated project) artist residency, to continue “Memory of Trees”

2011/1 Participant in the Plat(t)form Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland

2010/9 Noorderlicht Festival, "Warzone" group exhibition, including my work on the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide (2008)

2010/7 Finalist for the W. Eugene Smith award

2010/3 The Ashton J. and Virginia Graham O'Donnell Visiting Professorship and Global Studies Endowment, Whitman College

2010/3 Sheehan Gallery at Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA. Exhibition of "Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide"

2009/11 San Fedele Gallery, Milan, Italy. Exhibition of “Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide”

2009/11 Participant in the 16th World Press Joop Swart Masterclass

2009/10 Save L'Aquila Project, Santa Monica, CA, USA. Group exhibition/fundraiser for L'Aquila earthquake victims

2009/6 Reportage Atri Festival, Atri, Italy. Exhibition of “Memory of Trees”

2009/7 Rencontres d’Arles, "La Nuit de l’Année" (Night of the Year) projection on July 10th with Rwanda project "They Once Were Children"

2008 The Gage Gallery, Chicago, Ill. “Memory Denied: Turkey and the Armenian Genocide” as featured work in group exhibition for The Aftermath Project

2008 Look3 Festival of the Photograph, "Shots" slideshow presentation

2008 Lumix Photo Festival. Hannover, German, group exhibition

2009 Prospekt Photo group, Enzo Baldoni Award (Italy)

2008 Enzo Baldoni Award (Italy)

2008 Inge Morath Award, Magnum Photos

2008 The Aftermath Project grant

2007 Photo District News, "PDN 30"