Kathryn Cook (Albuquerque, USA, 1979). Born in Albuquerque, New Mexico (USA) and studied journalism at the University of Colorado. Her career as a professional photographer began in 2003 with Associated Press in Panama. Just two years later he left the agency to work as a freelance photographer and to devote himself entirely to personal projects in Latin America. In 2006, she moved to Istanbul to start work on the project Memory of Trees, a work on the Armenian genocide, which ended in a book with the same title published in 2014. His work focuses particularly on aspects related to memory and collective consciousness in societies that have been victims of genocide. In 2007 she was selected by Photo District News (PDN) as one of the top 30 emerging photographers and in 2008 became the Aftermath Project Award and the Inge Morath Award from Magnum Foundation. In 2009 she received the Enzo Baldoni Prize and in 2011 won the Marseilles-Provence artistic residence, 2013 to continue its Memory Tree project. Her work has been exhibited in many areas, among which are the Noorderlicht Festival, Warzone Group Show, Rencontres d'Arles, Lumix Festival for young photojournalists Hannover, San Fedele Gallery (Milan), The Gadge Gallery (Chicago) and Plat (t) form Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland). Her photographs have appeared in numerous international publications such as The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, TIME, Newsweek and U.S. News & World Report. He was founder of Prospekt Photographers and currently works as a photographer for the VU agency in Paris.
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