Katherine Elizabeth (Katie) Seymour is a photographer, writer and book designer. A recent graduate of the University of Oxford, where she studied Japanese, her work brings together a passion for storytelling, language and translation across visual and textual mediums.
As a designer, Katie accepts a range of commissions. She regularly produces and publishes a variety of publications (digital and physical) using Adobe InDesign. These range from project reports and individual stories, to exhibition guides and photo books. In some of these publications, she is also a contributor.
In 2020, Katie became an Associate of Changing Our Lives, a charity that works in coproduction with people with a learning disability and/or autism to achieve ordinary life outcomes.
As the charity’s principal photographer, Katie specialises in portrait photography. She seeks to increase disability representation in a manner that rejects tokenism by emphasising a person’s individuality and personality, over disability. Her photographic process takes place in a dialogue with the person she is photographing, as she believes that building a rapport with her subject (and, if appropriate, their family or support staff) is key to representing them as naturally and authentically as possible.
Notable Changing Our Lives publications featuring Katie’s photography include, Ami: In her own words (2019); Colour Between the Lines (2022); and Jayne Gallear: Picturing an Ordinary Life (2024). Katie’s portraits from the Colour Between the Lines oral history project were exhibited at the publication’s launch at the Black Cultural Archives, Brixton in the summer of 2022 and her portraits of Matthew, an autistic man who successfully made the transition from 16 years living in a locked hospital to his own home, were exhibited at the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham as a supplement to Foka Wolf’s installation, Why are we stuck in hospital? (2023).
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