Photographer; Katie Jackson

Katie is an underwater artist and anthropological storyteller, whose work explores the elemental forces that shape human identity, memory and embodiment. Through immersive photographic practice, she investigates the transformative power of environment on human nature and experience, using water as both medium and metaphor.

Working between art, editorial and environmental discourse, her images dissolve the boundary between body and landscape, revealing states of vulnerability, strength and quiet autonomy that emerge only when breath, gravity and control are surrendered.

Drawing on years spent living and working across Europe, alongside her lived experience as a freediver, surfer and mother, Katie approaches the ocean not as backdrop but as a living collaborator, one that reshapes all who enter.

Her work is rooted in contemporary feminist thought and anthropological curiosity, tracing how women inhabit natural spaces as sites of resistance, healing and transformation. Rather than depicting domination of nature, her images evoke communion with it, proposing a more relational form of power grounded in intuition, embodiment and ecological awareness.

Positioned between fine art and high-end editorial, Katie creates elemental visual narratives for luxury brands, publications and private collectors seeking imagery that moves beyond surface aesthetics into emotional and symbolic depth.

She lives on the Australian coast with her three children, continuing to explore the ocean as both subject and source, a place where identity dissolves and reforms and where new ways of seeing and being can emerge.