E. F. Kitchen is an internationally known artist based in Venice, CA. Her photographs are included in many major museums and private collections, including the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA; Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, FR; the Polaroid Corporation, Cambridge, MA; the Musées D’Aurillac, Aurillac, France; the Elton John Collection; the Michael G. Wilson Collection; the Marjorie and Leonard Vernon Collection; and the Weston Naef Collection. Platinum prints from the Suburban Knights series appeared at the Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI, in the spring of 2008.

E. F. Kitchen’s work has been published in The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were by Michael Ochs and Craig Butler (The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, 2003); Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography from 1835 to the Present by William A. Ewing (Thames and Hudson, 2002; Simon & Schuster, 1991); Bottoms by Edward Lucie-Smith (Barnes & Noble Books, 2000); Flora by Edward Lucie-Smith (Watson-Guptill Publications, 2000); the Washington Post (November 17, 2000); Sex: Portraits of Passion by John Williams (Watson-Guptill Publications, 1999); Adam: The Male Figure in Art by Edward Lucie-Smith (Rizzoli, 1998); the Los Angeles Times (July 29, 1998); Angeles Magazine (November 1988); and Interview Magazine (1986). Images from Suburban Knights were published in the September/October 2008 issue of View Camera: The Journal of Large Format Photography.

The nature of E. F. Kitchen’s work is to capture the essence of a subject that will hold up over time. She aims to create work that contains real truth, a substance that can be interpreted by successive generations. Kitchen is after images that achieve a spiritual and universal quality and that transcend time.

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