When Katie completed her BA in 2006, she wondered if her film and darkroom knowledge would be wasted in a newly digital world. After moving to West to Seattle, she found herself in a lab processing C-41 and scanning film for a living. It was there that she re-discovered her love for creating multi-layered Holga images. These surreal landscapes portray how her subconscious reassembles life in the form of dreams.
Katie is currently working to revive the art of film photography in the suburbs of Detroit. See more of her photography on her website.
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Every summer my husband’s cousins on one side of the family – spread across Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan - get together for a long weekend at a location somewhere in the middle. This year’s trip was planned for Munising: a small town in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, just outside of the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore on Lake Superior. Thinking back to past get-togethers, I remembered that our cousin Joseph Leadley had used film cameras. And since my new local lab can process 35mm C-41, I thought, “this is the perfect opportunity to do a film swap!”