Kate Joyce

Kate Joyce is based in Chicago, Illinois. Her work is informed by the rigor of daily practice, geometry, spacial relationships and transformation. Kate grew up in the American Southwest where landscape is inextricable from life. She studied photojournalism and sociology at San Francisco State University; Spanish in Guatemala and Chile; and documentary photography at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Between 2006-2009 she worked for Chicago’s renowned architectural photography studio, Hedrich Blessing, as an apprentice, web designer and staff photographer. In 2010 she ventured independently, starting Kate Joyce Studios, managing a variety projects and commercial clients. Kate has exhibited nationally and internationally with work covering a diverse array of subjects: residents of informal settlements in South Africa, "greasy-spoon" diner grills, perpetrators of domestic violence, a Midwest industrial forge. Throughout her developing career Kate has engaged with artists, designers and community builders. In 2000 she collaborated with Rebecca Solnit and Susan Schwartzenberg on their book, Hollow City:The Siege of San Francisco and the Crisis of American Urbanism. In 2003 Kate received a Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative Fellowship and spent one year in Bloemfontein, South Africa working on documentary projects with a local NGO whose work centers on early childhood education. Currently she is collaborating with writer and W. Eugene Smith biographer, Sam Stephenson, and is a core photographer for Bull City Summer, an art-documentary project about a North Carolina minor league baseball season. Kate's work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Paris Review Daily, The Santa Fe New Mexican, The Chicagoan, Architect Magazine and Trends Magazine. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of New Mexico and Duke University Perkins Library Special Collections & Rare Archive.