Caitlyn Kingery is a Fayetteville-based photojournalist and documentary photographer pursuing an MFA at the University of Arkansas School of Art. She graduated from Columbia College Chicago with a major in fine art photography in 2021, where she received the Kodak Professional Photography Endowed scholarship. She started her journey as a photojournalist for the Augusta Press, and a news photographer for WJBF News channel 6. She currently works as an independent photojournalist. Upon graduation, Caitlyn's work was part of the "Early Exposure Series" group show at Perspective Gallery in Chicago (2021). Her work has also been exhibited by the Augusta Art Council (2023), and she was a finalist in the Augusta Photo Festival. In 2025, Caitlyn was awarded a merit scholarship upon admittance to the Charcoal book club’s Chico Review; a seven-day portfolio review featuring panels of notable leaders of the photography industry. She was selected for her work Dark Matter, an ongoing body of work that explores the 2014 disappearance of her mother, Tammy Kingery, and the subconscious processing of trauma through dreams and dissociation. She began photographing at age 11, documenting her family’s roadtrips through the rural midlands of South Carolina, the mountains of Appalachia, and the rust belt of Indiana. Her work is shaped by recurring existential questions surrounding the decaying nature of memory, intergenerational trauma, and isolation in pursuit of transcendence.
Email catkingeryphoto@gmail.com