I’ve always been interested in the space between what something looks like and what it feels like.

 

 

I’m Katrina, a photographer and artist based in Tulsa, Oklahoma.


I photograph people, but I think what I’m really paying attention to is everything happening underneath. The way someone moves when they forget about the camera. The light that changes a photograph completely. The strange, beautiful in-between moments you couldn't have planned if you tried.

 

My work is cinematic, a little experimental, and deeply influenced by the natural world. I’m drawn to movement, texture, shadow, softness, symbolism, and the beautifully unexpected.


I don't want to simply make a beautiful photograph of you.


I want to make something that feels like you.


 

THE ARTIST BEHIND THE CAMERA

Photography isn't the only way I've learned to see

My creative life has taken a lot of forms.


I’ve worked in graphic design, where I learned to think in composition, color, negative space, and story. I found yoga and movement, which changed the way I understand the body, presence, shape, and the space we occupy. Eventually, aerial found me too, giving me another way to explore movement, strength, softness, and what the body can create.


And through all of it, there has always been photography.


These parts of my life inevitably find their way into the photographs I make. I notice the curve of a hand. The shape a body creates against the landscape. The way fabric catches the wind. The tension between light and shadow. The tiny gesture happening between two people while everyone else is looking somewhere else.


It all taught me how to pay attention.

I’M ALWAYS LOOKING FOR THE MAGIC


I’m not particularly interested in perfection.


I’d rather have movement than perfect posture. Feeling over performance. Windblown hair, muddy feet, strange light, real laughter, an unexpected reflection, the photograph that happens three seconds after the photograph we thought we were making.


I’ll guide you when you need me to.

I’ll create a starting point, give you something to do, or help shape an idea.

But then I pay attention to what happens next.

Because that's usually where the good stuff is.

I don't need everything to go according to plan.

I just need enough room for something honest to happen.


THE WORLD IS PART OF THE PHOTOGRAPH


Nature has always felt less like a backdrop to me and more like a collaborator.


Water changes the way a body moves. Wind gives fabric a life of its own.

A field changes with the season. Light moves through trees differently every hour.

I love letting those things become part of the photograph rather than trying to control them.

Wildflowers tangled around bare feet. Bodies held by water.

Lovers disappearing into tall grass. Childhood beneath the trees.


The environment isn't just where the story happens. It's part of the story.


WHEN I'M NOT BEHIND THE CAMERA

I’m probably moving my body, teaching yoga, hanging from something in the air, wandering outside, making something, listening to music too loudly, or following whatever creative idea has gotten into my head that week.


I’m also a mother, which has changed the way I understand time, bodies, childhood, becoming, and why photographs matter in ways I don't think I could have understood before.


I love art that makes me feel something. Stories with a little darkness in them. Beautiful things that aren't too perfect. People who are curious. Places that feel alive.

And apparently, I will put flowers in just about anything.


COME AS YOU ARE



You don't need to know how to pose.

You don't need to be comfortable in front of a camera.

You don't need to arrive knowing exactly what you want to make.

We can figure that part out together.


My job is to create enough direction that you never feel lost and enough freedom that you still feel like yourself.

Some sessions are quiet. Some are playful. Some get weird.

Some become something completely different than what we originally imagined.

That’s part of creating together.


You bring yourself.

I’ll pay attention.

LET’S MAKE SOMETHING



Maybe you already know exactly what you want to create.

Maybe you just know you want photographs that feel a little different.

Either way, I’d love to hear what you're imagining.

Create With Me