KATE SCHERMERHORN
Kate Schermerhorn was born in New York in 1966 and raised in Malibu, California. She began photographing at age six.
Kate studied photography with Joel Sternfeld at Sarah Lawrence College. She graduated in 1989 and has since lived and worked in New York, Los Angeles, Hong Kong, Florence, Italy and from 1995 has lived in London. Kate’s four year old son Sacha has been by her side during much of the making of this book. He now carries a camera of his own.
America’s Idea of a Good Time is Kate’s first book. She is currently working on her second book which deals with the idiosyncrasies of Los Angeles.
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