Since the early 80s, E. F. Kitchen has focused her career on fine art photography. Over the years, EF has had twelve solo exhibitions at sites around the United States, and her work has appeared in forty-nine group exhibitions internationally. Highlights include the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas; the Meadows Museum of Art, Shreveport, Louisiana; the Museum of the Southwest, Midland, Texas; the Accademia di Belle Art, Genoa, Italy; and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
In 2010, powerHouse Books published a monograph, Suburban Knights: A Return to the Middle Ages, a collection of large-format platinum photographs of and interviews with present-day men and women who reenact medieval warfare. Further, her photography has been published in The Greatest Album Covers That Never Were by Michael Ochs and Craig Butler (2003), Adam: The Male Figure in Art by Edward Lucie-Smith (1998), and Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography from 1835 to the Present by William A. Ewing (1991). Her work appeared in exhibitions based on the latter book at the Vancouver Art Gallery, the New York Public Library, the Royal Ontario Museum, and the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts.
E.F.’s work is held in the permanent collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, the Biblioteque Nationale in Paris, the George Eastman House in Rochester, and the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, among others. It is also
