Residence

KATE SWEENEY was TPJ’s Photographer-in-Residence from 2016-2019. What follows is Kate’s original photo essays re-edited and expanded to provide a fuller compendium of Kate’s three-year photographic exploration Kate is a self-taught photographer from Columbus, Ohio whose work has been featured in Billboard, Glamour Magazine, Teen Vogue and numerous others, and recently completed a 3-year-long residency with The Photographic Journal. She aims to make work challenging ideas of femininity with an honesty that is simultaneously defiant and inviting. She does this by utilizing the human form, color, and our connection to nature. She is obsessed with memories and takes an empathetic approach to her portraits, interested in exploring themes of memory, identity, and freedom.