My name is Hetty Kate (Hetty is my first name) and like everyone, I am many things to many different people. But in this space I am a photographer simply looking at things around me, attempting to somehow condense fleeting moments of equilibrium into an image. I find these moments are as swift and delicate as a butterfly, and spending time in solitude to create images I find beautiful is my meditation and healing. I spend a great deal of time observing symmetry, geometry and perspective, and on occasion I try to capture the absurdity of life. Of which, you must admit, there is a lot. I am always searching for something and I hope, in my photography, I will find it.

Follow me on Instagram = @hettykate
Visit my music website = www.hettykate.com

I’ve been a professional jazz vocalist for over a decade, and I perform all around the world at clubs and festivals, large and small. Starting in my teens I worked as a photographic and artist’s model for many years and moved into TV commercials in my late 20’s. In 2017 I moved from my home in Melbourne, Australia to Paris, France amidst a hot flush of BREXIT and bravery, and I weathered the pandemic in Paris alone in a small apartment with nothing but a mouse for company. Although I’ve taken photos for years, like many the lockdown was where my image obsession bloomed once again and I’ve begun to lean in. It’s a relief (certainly after this long in my industry) to be able to turn the camera away from myself and become the observer, rather than the observed.

I come from a reasonably dysfunctional and thinly spread creative family of artists, crafters, builders, bakers, mechanics and writers – and though I have played and studied music since I was a young child, my college studies were in design – graphic, digital and interior.

If you’d like to say hello, send me a message on the contact form.