For the past 25 years, New Mexican photographer Kate Joyce (b.1979) has used the visual image to explore themes of intimacy and the elemental qualities of light, texture, and color. She received a Lewis Hine Documentary Initiative Fellowship (2003-2004) for her work in Bloemfontein, South Africa, and has published two books of photographs: Metamorphoses and Big Ears Knoxville (Hat and Beard Press). She studied photojournalism and sociology at San Francisco State University, Spanish in Guatemala and Chile, and documentary photography at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Her work explores the commonplace and highlights the complex beauty of the mundane through a wide range of subjects from everyday life.