Inspired by a cool photography teacher and her cupboard full of photobooks, Kate Peters started taking pictures at school and has never really wanted to do anything else since. Whilst doing a photography degree at Falmouth College of Arts she responded to a notice offering work experience with Nadav Kander, which she got and that led to what I guess would be some people’s idea of a dream apprenticeship - a full time assisting job with Nadav that lasted four years. After striking out on her own she quite quickly established herself as an editorial portrait photographer, a profile which was helped when in 2012 she was commissioned by the Guardian Weekend Magazine to photograph 32 of the UK’s Olympic hopefulls, which became a cover story. Her portrait of Julian Assange also ended up on the cover of Time. She has also worked on a number of personal p ...