Kate Schultze

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Kate Schultze is a photographic artist and writer based between Berlin and the North of England. Her practice explores memory, class, and cultural transition in post-industrial Europe. She has a particular passion for the photobook as a medium, working at Bildband Berlin and writing about photographic books, alongside regular appearances at art book fairs across Europe. She studied Photography at Lette Verein Berlin, as well as English and Art History at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Her photobook "mind the gap, luv." is held in the collections of the Martin Parr Foundation and the Ernst Rietschel Kultursammlung.
If you’re wandering through darkness, try turning your coat inside out. Kate Schultze reviews Maria Lax’s photobook Stray Sod.
Kate Schultze reviews Stray Sod by Maria Lax, a haunting photobook rooted in Irish folklore, disorientation and magical realism.
How do you live when you are constantly—and justifiably—afraid of dying? A review of Sasha Kurmaz’ photobook “Red Horse”
A review of Sasha Kurmaz’s “Red Horse”, a powerful photobook about the lived experience of war in Ukraine.
A curated selection of the photobooks and zines I discovered at Paris Photo, Polycopies and Off Print 2025. Two intense days, countless impressions and the titles that ultimately made it into my hand luggage. Explore unique finds, festival moments and why these books stood out among hundreds.
12 photobooks from 2025 that stuck with me, found at book fairs and beyond, circling identity, memory, and the gaze.
A curated selection of the photobooks and zines I discovered at Paris Photo, Polycopies and Off Print 2025. Two intense days, countless impressions and the titles that ultimately made it into my hand luggage. Explore unique finds, festival moments and why these books stood out among hundreds.
Two intense days, countless impressions and the titles that ultimately made it into my hand luggage.
With an intimate, raw style, Frida turns the camera on herself to reclaim her body as both subject and landscape and simultaneously making us aware that looking at illness is still incredibly difficult.
“Nicotine” is brought together into a richly textured and deeply poetic work about love, pain, longing, and hope.
With an intimate, raw style, Frida turns the camera on herself to reclaim her body as both subject and landscape and simultaneously making us aware that looking at illness is still incredibly difficult.
Charlie Engman’s “MOM” pushes the boundaries of the image of a mother and challenges ideas of control and vulnerability in parental relationships.
With an intimate, raw style, Frida turns the camera on herself to reclaim her body as both subject and landscape and simultaneously making us aware that looking at illness is still incredibly difficult.
With an intimate, raw style, Frida turns the camera on herself to reclaim her body as both subject and landscape and simultaneously making us aware that looking at illness is still incredibly difficult.
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Explore American Glitch by Orejarena & Stein—an eerie, satirical look at truth, fiction, and disinformation in the U.S. visual landscape.
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“Dogbreath” combines a lot of classic photography techniques to create a uniquely intimate yet uneasy atmosphere, weaving together images of urban decay, sun-bleached neighborhoods, mosh pits, and punk teenagers alongside their wild dog counterparts.
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Discover Kate Schultze’s Top 10+1 photobooks of 2024 — a curated list of this year’s most powerful, poetic, and thought-provoking photography books.
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Explore Max Pinckers’ State of Emergency—a powerful photobook that reimagines Kenya’s colonial history through reenactments and ‘imagined records.’
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Discover four standout zines that blend documentary, fashion, and experimentation—perfect for photographers exploring affordable, creative photobook formats.
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Explore Stefanie Moshammer’s photobook—a vivid, surreal take on the American Dream through love, fiction, and desert suburbia.
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Discover Elena Helfrecht’s Plexus, a haunting photobook exploring family trauma, memory, and myth through surreal black-and-white imagery.
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Finding beauty in normality: Ute and Werner Mahler’s almost static black and white photographs explore the details of mundanity.
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The British Isles marks the beginning of a new era of a tender approach to the weirdness of British documentary photography.