Beyoncé Covers British Vogue December, Lensed by Kennedi Carter AOC Fashion

At age 21, Kennedi Carter becomes the youngest photographer to shoot a British Vogue cover — actually three covers of Beyoncé Carter-Knowles, accompanied by a 20-page fashion spread for the December 2020 issue Beyoncé requested that a woman of color shoot the portraits, then taking on a new mission with Vogue UK’s editor-in-chief Edward Enninful to find her.

Carter takes the youngest photographer accolade from David Bailey, who shot model Enid Boulting for the February 1961 cover of British Vogue.

On her website, Kennedi Carter, a Durham, North Carolina, native now living in Dallas, describes her work as exploring “the aesthetics & sociopolitical aspects of Black life as well as the overlooked beauties of the Black experience: skin, texture, trauma, peace, love, and community. Her work aims to reinvent notions of creativity and confidence in the realm of Blackness.” Carter is represented by Candace Gelman & Associates, with offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco .