Katie McTiernan is a freelance photographer, writer, and filmmaker based in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in Flint, MI and still spends much of her time there. She has also lived in Wilmington, NC and Denver, CO. Much of her time is spent at the USA/Mexican border and in Mexico. She is available for work world-wide.

She has a BA in Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan.

She learned photography at the age of 13, when her father (a former photographer) gifted her his darkroom equipment and old 35mm Ricoh cameras, taught her the basics of developing film, and she spent hours in the Flint Public Library studying the work of great photographers and poets. She began photographing the youth and punk/hip-hop/alternative/and goth music scene she was a part of, in Flint, MI in the mid-late 1990s, it was her first major, in-depth body of work. She grew up with a camera in hand and she’s never put it down.

Katie’s work has appeared in Time, New York Times, BBC, Zeit Online, Texas Public Radio, NPR, ETC-Sweden, Motherjones, CNN, NBC, Göteborgs-Posten, and others.

She also works with regularly with Anadolu Photo Agency, Reuters, and Honey Head Films.

In addition, she works as a stills photographer on movie sets. Sometimes she works in radio, too (and really loves it).

Exhibitions:

https://www.loosenart.com/blogs/magazine/migrations-and-the-shifting-borders

Links to Recent Work:

Uvalde, Texas School Shooting and NRA for gp.se

https://www.gp.se/nyheter/världen/här-hedras-skolskjutningens-offer-i-uvalde-1.73571898

https://www.gp.se/nyheter/världen/kärleksbudskapet-i-texas-uvalde-är-starkt-1.73624166

https://www.gp.se/nyheter/världen/usa-s-största-vapenmässa-inledd-tre-dagar-efter-skolskjutningen-1.73678301

Patrick Lyoya shooting, Grand Rapids, Michigan

https://time.com/6169354/patrick-lyoya-grand-rapids-police-reform/

Migration Search and Rescue, Arizona