First picking up a camera on a whim and turning the lens on herself, she quickly developed a keen interest in photography. In keeping with her early self portraiture exercises, Katie views image-making as a creative exercise in and of itself; one which reveals the camera’s ability to communicate, analyze and abstract moments from lived experience, thus creating a biographical impulse within her body of work.

Working with themes of identity, gender, ability and function, Katie’s firsthand experience with disability, chronic illness & pain have also proved influential to the thematic and conceptual subjects within her practice. Katie’s work confronts conceptions of disability as defective, instead positioning it as a complex embodiment of vitality.