About Kate... These articles and commissions often dealt with people and cultures under threat in some way, and the strong relationship of many of these people to the land around them.Towards the end of the nineties Kate settled in Derbyshire and began a series of photo essays with the Derbyshire Hill farming community. The exhibitions that came from this work have toured widely, reaching both rural and urban audiences nationally and abroad. The work also became the book ‘On The Edge’, published in 2001. Images from these essays have been in many national and international newspapers and magazines, including The Guardian and The American Photo Review. Kates latest work “Gathering” has been with the Hill farming community of Tarset in Northumberland. With internationally acclaimed sculptor Sally Matthews She has worked alongside the farmers over a one year period and produced a body of work that will be published as a book and toured Nationally from the end of August 2005 arriving in London in January 2006. Forthcoming work includes a three year project commissioned by BioMAP with the Gebaliya Bedouin of the St Katherines Protectorate in Egypt. Here Kate will work with these communities to produce photographs that explore the crucial relationship of the Gebaliya tribes to their environment.