Hello, I’m Katie.
I am a writer. At first, all my writing was correspondence. I wrote long letters to friends all over the world, telling stories and sharing lives. At the beginning of 2013, I started this blog as a way to write letters to the world; since then, writing has become both a job and a passion. It’s a way to communicate all the strange and wonderful things I encounter, and it’s a way to make connections.
I am an analog photographer. I shoot with film. Analogue is all about imperfection; it captures the feelings, poetry, and emotions of a place. Usually I shoot with a Pentax K1000 and a Olympus Mju, though I also dabble with a plastic toy Holga, a Yashica twins lens reflex, even with disposable cameras. I want my pictures to look like my dreams, I want my pictures to feel like my nostalgia. I work on various projects and collaborations, including one called The Dreamspace that I shoot in collaboration with a photographer in NYC.
I live in Istanbul, Turkey. In 2013, I moved here from Massachusetts, my home state, looking for a bit of an adventure and an experience outside of the US. I thought I would stay for a year, but I never left, and now I consider Istanbul my home. It’s endlessly fascinating, wild, infuriating, heartbreaking, heart-soaring; Istanbul might be my main addiction. Istanbul is a mad city, crowded and complex and buzzing, and never ever boring. I live a rich and beautiful life.
I am insatiably curious and constantly delighted. I hope some of that is reflected in my writing on this blog.
You can find my professional website with my journalism clips here,
and my Instagram accounts here and here,
and you can always email me at knadworny [at] gmail [dot] com.