Carolyn is an Artist, Portrait Photographer and film-maker based in the UK. She exhibits nationally and internationally, is a multiple award winner and is widely published. Carolyn presentations will show us examples of her work, rooted in the lives and stories of people and place.
Carolyn Mendelsohn FRSA FRPS is an Artist, Portrait Photographer and film-maker based in the UK.
Nikon Europe Ambassador
Carolyn Mendelsohn is an artist and photographer whose practice explores identity, belonging, and lived experience. Through collaborative portraiture and storytelling, she creates work that amplifies underrepresented and quieter voices.
Her award-winning photography has been exhibited internationally at institutions including The Wellcome Collection, Photofusion, Impressions Gallery, The Brontë Parsonage Museum, The Science and Media Museum, Imperial War Museum, Royal Albert Hall, Portcullis House, Uk Parliament, Galerie Huit Arles. UNESCO Paris. Her work has been selected for Portrait of Britain, Open Walls Arles and the Royal Photographic Society International Photography Exhibition, The Kuala Lumpur International Portrait Awards, and the 15th Julia Margaret Cameron Awards, amongst others.
She is internationally recognised for her work with young people, including Being Inbetween (2020), a portrait series, exhibition and book exploring the lives of girls aged 10–12, and Through Our Lens, a photography mentoring initiative It has become recognised by Arts Council England and curators internationally as a model of best practice. In 2024 she was awarded the international prize for her photography work with young people by The Royal Photographic Society
Carolyn is currently a 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, alongside this she works on personal projects, and portrait commissions.
