Catherine DeLattre is an American photographer born in 1949. She grew up in Monongahela, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and studied anthropology and archaeology at Kent State University before earning a master’s degree in art photography from Purdue University in 1977. Her work includes domestic interiors, New York street scenes, and rural landscapes, with a continuing interest in everyday surroundings and the traces people leave in them. DeLattre has taught at the International Center of Photography, Vassar College, and the State University of New York at New Paltz. She has also worked as a film still photographer.
Her book The Great Wide Open (Setanta Books, 2026) brings together 62 photographs of houses, barns, cars, and roadside details in Wayne County, Pennsylvania, a rural landscape she has returned to since the late 1980s. She lives and works in New York City and Pennsylvania.
