Currently shutterbugging around the Sierra Foothills in California.

Even before I was diagnosed with autism, engaging with the world through a camera lens felt incredibly safe to me. My work generally focuses on lines, angles, and structure, and my passion is abandoned architecture and urban exploration. There's something so fascinating about buildings caught in time, being reclaimed by nature.
All of the photos used on this site are my own, collected from years of shutterbugging. Chronic pain has limited my photography projects since I moved to California, but I hope to resume in earnest once we get through the brutal summer season.
This page is currently a work in progress as I link all my photography projects over to my Flickr. You can also find any upcoming photography on my In the Works page.
Pre-California (Before 2018):
A now-demolished motel located at 284 Winthrop Street, Taunton, Massachusetts.
Photographed July 2017.
This was my first ever shoot, the one that sparked the bug for abandoned architecture for me. I had the opportunity to tour the unrestored sections of the hospital. Photographed August 2015.
Exterior shots of a gorgeous Catholic middle school in Taunton, Massachusetts, that closed due to funding issues in 2014. Photographed August 2017.
Uncategorized photography from Massachusetts adventures. Photographed 2016-2017.
Kate Kirk
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