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kat swansey

@katswansey.bsky.social
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Photographer, author of Texas Textures, dirt road democrat, Spurs fan, & dive bar dweller. Can eat beef ribs without messing up my lipstick.

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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 4h
a lil day trip through south texas… also known as the day where i had a meltdown because i couldn’t find a dairy queen 🎞️ kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
walking around “downtown” loraine, tx 🎞️kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
long drives and texas ghost towns 💘 🎞️ kodak gold 📍silver, texas
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
big news y’all: i got a micro-grant!!! 🤠📸 a huge thank you to the austin art alliance for supporting texas textures, my 15 year project documenting all the overlooked corners of texas. more miles, more film, more tiny towns + one step closer to my third photo book! 💌
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
random cars i found on a road trip through western/central texas 🎞️ kodak gold 📍anson, colorado city, silver, and sylvester
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
chat, am i doing this right? 🫣 🎞️ kodak gold and portra 400
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
i regret to inform all of you that after a brief break, i am back to sharing photos here
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
2,637 miles and 51 hours in the car on my most recent trip. can’t wait to share the pics tho!!!
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
he winked at me AGAIN, what does it mean
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
the waiter just winked at me, what does that mean?
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
i’ve published two books about places that are mostly abandoned or have fallen on hard times, but for the first time ever, i just found a town that made me too sad to even photograph it.
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
a few more from sylvester, texas 🎞️ kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
sylvester, tx on a 105° day. while i was taking photos of the house, a fella pulled up to make sure my car hadn’t broken down, saying, “this would be a bad place to end up stranded.” a week later, my car broke down. fortune teller or just a kind citizen? maybe a little bit of both 🤠 🎞️ kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
abandoned outside anson, texas. gonna photograph this again someday when the grass ain't so high 🥲 🎞️ kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
yeehaw go kick some ass this week (this is mostly a pep talk to myself because i have been very grumpy about photography lately) 🎞️ kodak gold 📍 colorado city, texas
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
just a few things that caught my eye somewhere along the backroads of the texas hill country 💘 🎞️ @kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
a baptist church in doole, texas. no, i didn’t go inside because it’s always swarming with bees 🥲 🎞️ kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
silver, texas… another ghost town i’m emotionally attached to 🎞️ kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i can’t tell any of my cousins that i got my heart stomped on because they’ll all be loaded up in their pickup trucks ready to find him and whoop his ass 🫪
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
a couple more from sanco, texas 🎞️ kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
another texas ghost town: 📍sanco, tx. 🎞️ @kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
an absolutely blissful day out on the guadalupe river this weekend 💘
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
hey y’all! my main freelance gig unexpectedly fell through, so i'm having a lil print sale to pay some bills 🤠 8x10 giclée prints $46 shipped + tracking send me the print you want + your address! venmo / cash app: @katswansey
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
a few more from colorado city, texas 🎞️kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
a few more from colorado city, texas 🎞️kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
welcome to colorado city, texas 🎞️kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
an old mercantile and tractor supply building 📍melvin, texas 🎞️kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
an abandoned school in melvin, tx 📍melvin, texas 🎞️kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
seen around downtown melvin, tx 📍melvin, texas 🎞️kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
a few photos from one of my favorite towns to photograph 📍melvin, texas 🎞️kodak gold
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
a couple more from the roll of film i lost and found 📍central texas 🎞️lomo 100
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
another shot from the roll of film i lost and found 📍central texas 🎞️lomo 100
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
if you’d like to know how spoiled i am (still) at 36: i just tried to clean the kitchen for my meemaw after breakfast and i couldn’t find the cleaner for the countertops 😭 i grew up in this house but the kitchen was always off limits. i got the dishes washed tho
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
i skip a lot of shit that comes on the playlist, but not guy clark. i hear guy clark, i turn up the dang volume
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
photos from a roll of film i lost and found. i can’t remember the last time i shot 35mm so this was a fun surprise 📍central texas 🎞️lomo 100
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
hi, i’m kat 🙋🏻‍♀️ and i like drinking lone star beer in small towns and getting my tintype taken by one of my favorite photographers 📷 holliday tintype
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
a few more from day n' nite market -- one of my fave places to photograph along route 66! it was my second time stopping on this trip because i loaded my film wrong the first time 🤪 but i got to meet the owner, stephen, who shared the history of this place! 🎞️ kodak portra 400 📍milan, new mexico
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
spent the weekend in my home “dark room.” 14 out of 40 rolls! i’m tired.
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
gosh, i just freakin' love when i can get a shot through the windows like i did at this abandoned spot on route 66 🎞️ kodak portra 400 📍new mexico
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
st. margaret mary chapel 🎞️ kodak portra 400 📍 paraje, new mexico
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
bluewater bowling alley off route 66 🎞️ kodak portra 400 📍 bluewater, new mexico
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
welcome to paradise acres 🎞️ kodak portra 400 📍 bluewater, new mexico
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
holy shit one of the most frustrating things as a creative (or anyone, i guess) is trying to just share your art with the people who follow you and then having to deal with dumb shit like algorithms and shadow bans. just show my posts to the people who follow me, jfc
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
day n nite Market off route 66. this is now the home of new mexico chili chips 😋 🎞️ kodak portra 160 📍 milan, new mexico
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
scenes from route 66 in san fidel, new mexico 🎞️ kodak portra 160
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
budville, new mexico, off route 66 has one hell of a history. bud rice, who the town is named after, was murdered here in 1967. some say it was a drifter. others say it was a man named max, who later married bud’s widow and was eventually killed here too 😳 🎞️ kodak portra 160
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
it’s friday, crack open a cold one 🍻 🎞️ kodak portra 160 📍 budville, new mexico
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
king’s cafe on route 66 🎞️ kodak portra 160 📍 budville, new mexico
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
are you sick of me yet? surely you’re not sick of this ultra-cool picture of an abandoned car on one of the most remote roads in texas! 😌 it can be all yours if you buy it at katswansey.com
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kat swansey @katswansey.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
a few more from encino, new mexico 🎞️ kodak portra 160
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