Katie Hayes Luke

Photographer/Multimedia Producer

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Location: Austin, Texas

Nationality: American

Biography: I am a freelance photographer and multimedia producer in Austin, Tx. A regular day could have me shooting pictures, producing a video project, editing multimedia or planning long-term projects. I love good light, clean sound and tight edits.... read on

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Project Friday: A New Home

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Feb 20, 2016

For the last few months, I have followed Anastasia and her family. While living at the City Rescue Mission with her family, she and her brother went to school at Positive Tomorrows, a school for homeless children in Oklahoma City, Okla. Her mom recently secured permament housing and transitioned the kids back into public school.

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Katie Hayes is in Houston on Assignment for NPR. Learn how you can help.

By Katie Hayes Luke — Houston Flood Caused By Harvey Sends Residents Scrambling For Safety Read the full article, here. Mayor Sylvester Turner has established the..

Aug 28, 2017 5092

Matadoras de Torros

By Katie Hayes Luke — A story that I have been working on for 9 years is running today in Texas Monthly . As a freelance photographer who specializes in long-from..

Jul 17, 2017 3025

A School That Provides The One Constant In Homeless Children's Lives

By Katie Hayes Luke — This story, currently running on NPR.org , is a short exerpt from a project that I have been working on for over two years. With thousands of more..

Jun 19, 2017 1763

Behind the Mask

By Katie Hayes Luke — As part of a class project, the kids in Ms. Freyer's class at Positive Tomorrows in Oklahoma City, Okla. created masks inspired by by the book..

May 26, 2017 1738

A Funeral at Last

By Katie Hayes Luke — I covered the funeral of Capt. Robert Russell Barnett, KIA in Vietnam, for the San Antonio Express-News . Barnett's Air Force plane was shot down..

Apr 24, 2017 1667

Bloodless, A long-term project

By Katie Hayes Luke — Each year I make a track to south Texas to continue work on a project about bloodless bullfighting. I love returning to a place that often feels..

Feb 27, 2017 1716

Texas: 'The Wild West of Wind'

By Katie Hayes Luke — Who knew that wind energy was a boom industry in west texas? I surely did not before photographing a story for The Guardian . I visited the small..

Feb 20, 2017 1714

A Point In Time

By Katie Hayes Luke — I went out again with the Homeless Alliance in Oklahoma City, Okla. this past week for the annual Point-In-Time count of the homeless population...

Feb 1, 2017 1686

Phoebe is Powerful

By Katie Hayes Luke — I made this image last week while working on a project about homelessness and education. Phoebe is a new student this year at a school that works..

Nov 21, 2016 1685

Early Voting, 2008

By Katie Hayes Luke — I met Sgt. Michael Turk in 2008 while working on my thesis for graduate school in Austin, Texas. At that time, he worked as a recruiter for the Army..

Nov 7, 2016 1719

The Issues

By Katie Hayes Luke — I am early voting in Texas today and thinking about the issues that are so important in this election. If you are in the position to vote, please go..

Nov 4, 2016 1678

Going Through the Archive

By Katie Hayes Luke — It seems like every few years technology changes or I need a larger external drive for file storage. It is a great opportunity to look at photos..

Nov 2, 2016 1731

Photo Project Friday: A New Home

By Katie Hayes Luke — A family from Positive Tomorrows moves into their new home. What I perceived to be as an exciting moment in a child's life, can in fact be a..

Mar 4, 2016 1701

Project Friday: Poverty and Education

By Katie Hayes Luke — This image is from an ongoing project I am working on in Oklahoma City looking at the impact of homelessness on education. I am spending time..

Feb 12, 2016 1658

A Point in Time, 2016

By Katie Hayes Luke — As part of an ongoing project in the Oklahoma City area dealing with homelessness, I photographed the Point in Time count for the The Homeless..

Feb 12, 2016 1689

Researching Microbes at a Body Farm for NPR

By Katie Hayes Luke — I love seeing work that I have shot a second time around. In 2013 I photographed a body farm in Huntsville, Tx for NPR . The researchers wanting to..

Dec 11, 2015 1695

Back to the First Day

By Katie Hayes Luke — On the first day of school, Positive Tomorrows, a private school in Oklahoma City for homeless children, makes sure that every kid has a backpack..

Dec 5, 2015 1720

Alexis, Positive Tomorrows

By Katie Hayes Luke — For the last few months I have been working on a personal project on Positive Tomorrows, a school for homeless children in Oklahoma City. Last week..

Nov 28, 2015 1793

Looking forward to the next school year...

By Katie Hayes Luke — I am finally starting work on a project that I have wanted to do for years, looking at the interplay of poverty and education in the United States...

Jul 1, 2015 1681

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