Katherine Pekala is a photographer and visual artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Katherine’s work exists in a state of in-between — clarity and distortion, containment and release — and draws upon personal experiences of double vision, emotional rupture, and the tension between control and surrender.What truths emerge when we let go of trying to focus?
Email: katherinepekala@gmail.com
Instagram: @katherinepekala
EDUCATION
International Center of Photography (ICP)
Creative Practices OYC Program, Director’s Fellowship
University of Michigan
BA in Photography, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
DIS Copenhagen
Creative Practices OYC Program, Director’s Fellowship
University of Michigan
BA in Photography, Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design
DIS Copenhagen
EXHIBITIONS
2025 Look Up, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
2025 Imaginary Ceilings, Fugue Gallery, New York, NY
2025 This Is Not A Test Print, Loupe Digital, New York, NY
2022 An Eye For Fashion, East Bay Photo Collective, Oakland, CA
2025 Imaginary Ceilings, Fugue Gallery, New York, NY
2025 This Is Not A Test Print, Loupe Digital, New York, NY
2022 An Eye For Fashion, East Bay Photo Collective, Oakland, CA
CLIENTS + PUBLICATIONS
The Cut, New York Magazine, Purple Fashion Magazine, Air Mail, All the Pretty Birds, Bottega Veneta, Artsy, Barneys New York, Business Insider, Chanel, epi.logic, Essence, Getaway, GQ, Harper’s BAZAAR, Huffington Post, Hypebae, Marie Claire, MyTheresa, OpenTable, Peacock TV, Refinery29, Shop McMullen,
Teen Vogue, The Wing, Torlowei, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Vogue Arabia