Photographer Overview
Carolyn Mendelsohn is known for her compelling portraits, her personal series and lifestyle work. She works on both client and personal commissions and commercial briefs.
Media: Carolyn’s artwork/photography has been published and featured in the following: BBC News/Breakfast, The Sunday Times, The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Daily Mail, The Yorkshire Post, Click Magazine, The BJP, Professional Photography, RPS Journal, RPS Contemporary Photography Journal, Amateur Photographer and many other national and international magazines (editorial,commercial) as well as online in Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, Bored Panda, La Monde,
Publications : Being Inbetween – Book, Monograph Published by BlueCoat Press - Dec 2020
Her personal work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Recent Awards include;
2020 Winner – Portrait Series 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Award
2020 Winner – OpenWall Arles – (3 portraits) British Journal of Photography & Galerie Huit Arles
2019 Winner - Portrait of Britain, BJP, Nikon, JC Decaux
2018 RPS 100 Heroines - Nomination
2018 Short Listed for IWPA (International women’s Photography Award.
2017 Winner - Portrait of Britain, BJP, Nikon, JC Decaux
2017 Finalist Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition 160
2016 Winner (Gold Medal) RPS International Print Exhibition 159
2013 WInner Professional Photographer of the Year - Lifestyle
Exhibitions
2021 Jan – July – Being Inbetween – solo exhibition. Impressions Gallery, Bradford
2020 June- Sept OpenWalls Arles - Galerie Huit Arles and British Journal of Photography
2020 Re-Framing Identities - Bologna Art City - 100 Heroines
2019 Photo North – Festival of Photography. Being inbetween
2019 Portrait of Britain – British Journal of Photography – and JCdecaux
2019 (UN)Framing our identities – RPS 100 Heroines, 19 Mallord St. Chelsea/ The Hive. Blackpool
2019 Being Inbetween solo exhibition Sugar Store Gallery, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal -
2019 209 Women – Open Eye Gallery Liverpool
2018 209 Women – Portcullis House West Minister
AOP50, 1 Canada Square, Cary Wharf
RPS 160 tour
Solo exhibition
Being Inbetween, Crossley Gallery, Halifax
2017
Portrait of Britain
RPS 160
Photoblock, The Old Tuman Brewery, London
RPS159
Retina Photography Festival - Edinburgh
Belfast International Photography Festival
The Civic, Barnsley,
Museum of Somerset
2016 RPS 159
University of Brighton
Royal Albert Hall
Photoblock, The Old Truman Brewery, London.
2015 Portrait Salon, London and Tokyo
Solo exhibitions include.
2016 Being Inbetween,
Gallery 2, Salts Mill, Saltaire, West Yorkshire
Art Link Gallery, Princes Avenue Hull
2015 Being Inbetween
Gallery Butterfly Rooms, Saltaire
2010 Keepers - Hexham Arts Centre
2008 Face - Hexham Abbey
2008 Behind Closed Doors - Saltaire
2008 Galleria Espais B, Barcelona
C4 Finalist - Picture This , with Martin Parr, Brett Rogers, Alex Proud