ABOUT KENNEDI CARTER

A Durham, North Carolina native by way of Dallas, Texas, Kennedi Carter is a fine art and editorial photographer with a primary focus on Black subjects. Her work highlights the aesthetics & sociopolitical aspects of Blackness as well as the overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, peace, love and community. Her work aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness. 

AWARDS

AT&T’s Black Future Makers 2022
The Root's Future 25  2021
Adweek's Creative 100 2021
Dazed 100’s 2021
Google: International Women’s Month 2021
Agent’s Club: Best Celebrity Magazine Cover (Women) 2021
Photographic Museum of Humanity: Top 10 Black Female Photographers to Watch 2021
The New York Times: Top 4 Next Great Images Makers 2021
Photoville Juror’s Choice 2020
British Journal of Photography Ones to Watch 2020
North Carolina Artists Exhibition: Juror's Choice
First Prize Pride Photo Award - Single Images 2020

PARTIAL CLIENT LIST

British Vogue, Vogue China, Rolling Stone, GQ, ZEITmagazin, i-D, The Cut, Vanity Fair, TIME,
Icon, The Fader, Bustle, Glamour, Porter, HighsNobiety, BET, Essence, Entertainment Weekly, 
The New York Times, The New Yorker, Complex, WIRED, Bitch Magazine, INC, ProPublica,
Refinery 29, Dwell Magazine, She's Mercedes, The Happy Reader

Beats by Dre, Levi's, Apple, Netflix, Sony Music, Google, Burberry, Off-White, Timbaland,
Abercrombie + Fitch, Airbnb, Hanifa, Penquin Random House, Mass Mutual, National Geographic 

 

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