Writing for NET-A-PORTER’s July 11, 2021 online fashion story ‘Fearless’, Danielle Prescodsays that the secret of the totally-fabulous Precious Lee is that she is breaking the mold by being unapologetically herself. Elissa Santisi styles the Georgia Peach [as Lee is called with affection by many of us] in images by Kennedi Carter [IG].
There are certain pleasures that come with writing/editing AOC. Checking Net-a-Porter today, an airborne Simone Biles greeted me in ‘A New High’ for the new Porter Edit February 7, 2022 cover story. AOC LOVES Simone Biles in every aspect of her wonderful self. Blessed with unusually strong intuition, I then said to myself “photographed by Kennedi Carter.” Correct, Anne.
Last summer Kennedi Carter photographed Amanda Gorman for Porter Edit, leading me to Google if Simone Biles and Amanda Gorman know each other, as it seems they would get on fabulously together. They do.
AOC feels like we’re looking at tomorrow’s creative Black titans in Porter Edit’s July 26 issue. marriage of celestial light. Biden-Harris 2021 inauguration Day poet Amanda Gorman is lensed by photographer Kennedi Carter.
Carter shot Simone Biles for Glamour Magazine’s June cover story, and now she roars in with Amanda Gorman in tow. Not too shabby Ms. Carter. It makes AOC feel really, really great about all this Black Girl Magic.
In her Porter Edit interview with Kadish Morris, Gordan speaks about her upcoming honor as co-chair of the Met Gala, Monday September 13, sharing duties with Billie Eilish, Naomi Osaka and Timothée Chalamet.
Ten-star, athlete woman Simone Biles covers the June 2021 issue of Glamour Magazine US. And what a cover it is!
Glamour Magazine’s cover fashion story, these images by photographer Kennedi Carter have infused the gymnastic star with a magnetic, spirited, human-beyond-words presence. I always say that on rare occasions with model or subject and the photographer — all hell breaks loose, and it’s like nobody else is in their universe.
Model Paloma Elsesser is styled by Eric McNeal in Kennedi Carter’s fashion story for Zeit Magazine Feb. 4, 2021./ Hair by Latisha Chong; makeup by Raisa Flowers
In December 2020 photographer Kennedi Carter unseated British Vogue photographer David Bailey as the youngest image-maker ever to shoot a Vogue cover. Bailey held the honor since 1961. Carter took over at age 21, shooting Beyoncé' in all her glory.
Already on a rising trajectory propelled by excellence, the Durham, North Carolina, native who went to Texas and back again to NC hasn’t looked back. Carter finds herself reflective about the events happening around her, without embracing an Icarus mentality that takes her too close to the sun.
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.