Carolyn Mendelsohn
{{Short description|English portrait photographer}}
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Carolyn Mendelsohn is an English portrait photographer.{{cite journal |last1=Roberts |first1=Sarah |title=A Portrait of Britain: I wanted to give a face to the girl I was and the girls who are |journal=British Journal of Photography |date=8 March 2018 |url=https://www.bjp-online.com/2018/03/a-portrait-of-britain-i-wanted-to-give-a-face-to-the-girl-i-was-and-the-girls-who-are/ |accessdate=1 December 2018}}
Life and work
Mendelsohn originally trained and worked as an actor and film-maker, becoming a professional photographer in 2008.{{cite web |title=Carolyn Mendelsohn: Being Inbetween |url=http://www.rps.org/regions-and-chapters/regions/headquarters/blogs/2018/april/photographer-talk-carolyn-mendelsohn |publisher=Royal Photographic Society |accessdate=18 January 2019|date=16 April 2018 |archive-date=11 July 2018 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180711171517/http://www.rps.org/regions-and-chapters/regions/headquarters/blogs/2018/april/photographer-talk-carolyn-mendelsohn}}
In 2016 she won a gold medal in the Royal Photographic Society'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.{{cite web |title=RPS 160 Artist Talk - Carolyn Mendelsohn |url=https://www.theculturediary.com/events/rps-160-artist-talk-carolyn-mendelsohn |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181202070511/https://www.theculturediary.com/events/rps-160-artist-talk-carolyn-mendelsohn |url-status=usurped |archive-date=2 December 2018 |website=The Culture Diary |accessdate=1 December 2018}} 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) Award for Photography with Young People.{{cite web |title=RPS Awards 2024 recipients |url=https://rps.org/about/awards/the-rps-awards-2024/rps-awards-2024-recipients/ |website=rps.org |access-date=21 November 2024}}
Mendelsohn is a member of the Royal Photographic Society and the Society of Wedding and Portrait Photographers.{{cite web |title=About |date=9 June 2014 |url=http://www.carolynmendelsohnphoto.com/about/ |publisher=Carolyn Mendelsohn |accessdate=18 January 2019}}
She is based in Saltaire, West Yorkshire.{{cite news |last1=Tate |first1=Chris |title=Carolyn Mendelsohn awarded gold medal for her picture of 11-year-old Alice Ackroyd in Royal Photographic Society's international print exhibition |url=https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/14798167.saltaire-photographer-wins-global-prize/ |accessdate=1 December 2018 |work=Telegraph and Argus |date=13 October 2016}} She has three children.{{cite web |title=Home page |url=http://www.carolynmendelsohnphoto.com/ |publisher=Carolyn Mendelsohn |accessdate=18 January 2019}}
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External links
- {{official website|https://carolyn-mendelsohn.format.com/}}
- {{official website|www.carolynmendelsohnphoto.com}} (commercial)
- [https://seamlessphoto.com/beinspired/2018/08/carolyn-mendelsohn/ Profile] at Be Inspired: Seamless
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Category:21st-century English photographers
Category:21st-century British women photographers
Category:English women photographers
Category:People from Shipley, West Yorkshire
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