About
Kate Soltan is an Edinburgh-based photographer, journalist, social entrepreneur, teacher and graduate of the Warsaw University and Edinburgh College. Her life revolves around language, photography, visual arts and community projects and she enjoys creating spaces where these areas intersect.
Throughout her career she has been involved in multiple photographic and literary projects and led art workshops for children from different walks of life, both in Poland and Scotland.
She writes mostly for Sens Magazine, occasionally popping up on zwierciadlo.pl website. She has also written for Art&Business Magazine and offered freelance editing and proofreading services for numerous Polish authors.
As a photographer she loves photographing seemingly obvious things, plants and people. She is especially drawn into cyanotypes as this technique creates space for more organic interaction with the images.
As a co-founder of Visual Literacy Matters CIC, which supports and advocates visual literacy through educational projects and active engagement with visual forms of communication and expression, she strongly believes that visual language can be helpful in areas where verbal communication is difficult or insufficient.
Creative Collaborations
Exhibitions & Awards
- Jan 2020 – curator of Food Photography Exhibition, Scottish Government, Victoria Quay, Edinburgh
- Apr 2019 – “Shadows” solo exhibition, Meow Studios, Edinburgh
- 2018 – 2019 – Artist in Residence at Edinburgh College
- 2018 –
- Exposed 2018 – college exhibition, Out of the Blue, Edinburgh
- NC and HND Photography Course in Edinburgh College
- BIPP Gold Winner in Social & Portraiture Student Category, Scottish Region
- 2016 –
- Group college exhibition of photographs, Creative Exchange, Edinburgh
- Photographs for “The A Word” book (Polish edition), Harmonia Publishing House
- 2008 – 2011 – group photo exhibitions, AniAni Art Gallery, Warsaw, Poland.
- 1999 – 2004 – MA in Polish Philology, Warsaw University, Poland
Publications
- 2020 – present – freelance journalist, Sens Magazine, Poland
- 2019 – 2023 – photographs for the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh publication (launch in autumn 2023)
- 2020 – 2021 – editing and proofreading of “Japan” („Japonia”) by Kinga Kocimska, Edinburgh, UK
- 2018 – editor of “Business Inspirations of Polish Women in the World, part 2” („Biznesowe inspiracje Polek na świecie, cz. 2”), Edinburgh, UK
- 2017 – editor of “Business Inspirations of Polish Women in the World” („Biznesowe inspiracje Polek na świecie, cz. 1”), Edinburgh, UK
- 2017 – editor, Pangea Magazine, Edinburgh, UK
- 2016 – photographer and editor of “The A World” („Słowo na A”) by Nikodem Sadlowski, Harmonia Publishing House, Poland
- 2013 – journalist, Art & Business Magazine, Warsaw, Poland
- 2009 – editor of “Diary of a hired sailor” („Zapiski najemnego żeglarza”) by Krzysztof Baranowski, Warsaw, Poland
- 2008-2011 – editor and journalist, Yachting Magazine, Warsaw, Poland
- 2007 – “India in the eyes of the European tourist” („Indie w oczach europejskiego turysty”), the article in multi-authored publication “Politeness at the Edge of the World” („Grzeczność na krańcach świata”), Academic Publishing House, Poland
- 2005 – 2006 – co-author of the Practical Guide in “Warsaw Praga Guidebook” („Przewodnik po warszawskiej Pradze”) – Polish and English editions for Center of Europe Foundation, Warsaw, Poland
- 2003 – writing down, proofreading and self-publishing of the II World War memories of a family member (2 copies), Warsaw, Poland