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CLIENT LIST

• Miller Lite

• DDB Chicago

• McCann Health

• Apple

• Tecovas

• Peloton

• Magnolia

• Stag Provisions

• Apiece Apart

• Her New Tribe

• McKinley Mizar Jewelry

• Jenni Kayne

• Tribeza

• Duck Tape

• Krewe Eyewear

• Miranda Bennett Studio

• Carve Designs

• Pedernales Cellars

• Advent Health

• TX Highways Magazine, April 2024

• Morningstar Magazine, Q4 2023

• Meridian, Spring 2023

COMMERCIAL LIFESTYLE + EDITORIAL + FASHION + PORTRAITS + FINE ART

Cathlin is a Photographer and Director based in Austin, Texas who loves telling stories with her camera. As a photographer, you get the sense that her portraits are challenging you with an achingly beautiful question about life you can’t put into words. (Either that or they’re playing up something funny!) She’s inspired by shadows and light, that kinetic energy you can feel on your skin, and a sentimental longing that connects us all. Cathlin is a mama to two children who are often depicted in her photographs. She is currently working on her first short film, “The Oldest”, which is filming June 2024 in Iowa.

Cathlin takes the photographs that don’t look staged. The in-between moments. The funny inside jokes. The commercial photography that doesn’t look over-produced and over-lit. Her sweet spot comes from observing how people naturally act and move, and directing them to “do more of that”.

She grew up on a lake in Iowa, and her adventure heart never quit those big open skies. Cathlin came to UT for grad school and fell in love with Texas. It felt like home. Since she lived in Austin in the 90s, she considers herself an honorary Texan.

She enjoys surfing whenever possible, which is almost never (land-locked in Texas). Her friends call her brave and scrappy, and her work weird. She thinks they should get out more.

RECENT AWARDS

• Winner in the 14th Julia Cameron Awards, Portrait Category 2020

• Finalist in the 14th Julia Cameron Awards, Women Seeing Women Category 2020

• Director’s Award, Women at Work Exhibit, PhotoPlace Gallery, 2019

• Finalist, Childhood Exhibit, PhotoPlace Gallery, 2019

• Finalist in the 10th Julia Cameron Women Award, Women Seeing Women category

• Named in the September/October 2018 issue of Click magazine as one of “20 Women Changing Photography”

• Named one of Click and Company’s 100 photographers to watch 2018

• Awarded the prestigious 2017 Photo Lucida Critical Mass Top 50 for her series “The Space Between”
  
  

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS & SHOWS

• Austin Studio Tour, 2021

• 14th Julia Cameron Awards Show, FotoNostrum Mediterranean House of Photography, Barcelona, March 4-28, 2020

• Speaker at Photo Native, 2019

• Women at Work Group Show, PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont, 2019

• Childhood Show, PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont, 2019

• ATX Squared Art Show, October 6, 2018

Random List of Likes:

• Soul music

• Surfing & water skiing

• New Orleans

• Supporting female creatives

• Roller skating

• Big skies

• Italian parsley

• Other laid back people

Random List of Dislikes:

• Tame Impala

• Focaccia bread

• Allergy headaches

• Closed-minded people

• Making lists

CONTACT ME

Email me at cathlin@cathlinmccullough.com or reach out using the form below: