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Caitlin O’Hara
@caitlinohara.bsky.social
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www.caitlinohara.com
Yorkshire-born photojournalist in the Sonoran desert with juntosphoto.com
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print shop: caitlinohara.darkroom.com
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A screenshot from an op-ed by photojournalist Gabriella Angotti-Jones in Hammer and Hope about the experience of photographing fires in Los Angeles and the toll it took on her and her community.
April 26, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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I’m speaking tomorrow on this panel!
A screenshot of the Society of Environmental Journalists 2025 conference schedule app, with one session selected: How (and how not) to cover extreme heat, which is tomorrow Sat 26 at 8:15am
April 25, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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A small solitary cloud blocks the sun in a Phoenix, Arizona neighborhood with palm trees silhouetted above a house roof.
January 28, 2025 at 12:48 AM
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A ruddy duck paddling predawn with sunrise reflecting in the water at Saguaro Lake Sunrise at Saguaro Lake with two American coots landing and creating parallel wakes in the bottom right corner and a boat entering the top of the frame from the left.
January 4, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Spent the early hours birding 🥰
Just before dawn at the marina at Saguaro Lake reservoir
January 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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My word for the year is spaghetti, according to this screenshot from a skeet by Merrium Webster.com that reads: “take a screenshot of this gif and whichever new word you land on is your word for 2025. Godspeed.”
January 1, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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Today we sewed some felt penguins :)
Two in progress felt penguins Two finished felt penguins A finished felt penguin The very beginning of a felt penguin sewing project, with just her face sewn together
December 26, 2024 at 11:14 PM
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Very good roster. Here’s my Christmas dream blunt rotation:
The cast of the music video Last Christmas by Wham! Waving from a ski lift wearing fashionable 80s ski outfits Queen Latifa wearing that fabulous red dress in the best holiday film, Last Holiday Martha May Whovier wearing her fur-lined Santa outfit and perfect red lipstick The Griswalds’ scold neighbors who actually look cool as hell and honestly if the griswalds lived next to me would I also be a jerk? Probably?
December 25, 2024 at 10:35 PM
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Im poaching pears, roasting carrots and Brussels sprouts and making Kenji’s crispy roasted potatoes
A page from The Food Lab from J. Kenji Lopez-Alt, with his recipe for super crisp roast potatoes. He recommends par boiling them and roughing them up before putting them in a hot oven, to maximize their surface area and starch on the exteriors
December 25, 2024 at 7:21 PM
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weird Christmas vibes last night at AmFest for the WSJ
December 21, 2024 at 12:55 AM
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I had an unpredictable and logistics-heavy day and still made myself a dinner that was pretty good. Please clap!
A salad with kale, apples, hazelnuts, radish, and beats roasted in soy sauce made by someone who was tired but who loves herself!
December 4, 2024 at 1:32 AM
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Slingin’ prints on caitlinohara.darkroom.com
Why send money to Bezos when you can support independent photojournalism? use the code “alf” for 30% off for my bsky buddies 🥰
Prints for sale by your photojournalist friend. There are photos of slot canyons, marshes, mountains, bays and birds. Prints for sale by your photojournalist friend. On this page photos of a cherry blossom, a saguaro cactus, a prickly pear blooming with yellow flowers, a slot canyon on Dinetah, half dome at Yosemite.
November 27, 2024 at 5:55 AM
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Spent today on Diné land speaking with people about resistance to uranium mining—super long history of broken promises up here and that includes companies saying they’ll clean up mines.
A community board in the Cameron Chapter House on Dinetah (the Navajo Nation) includes lots of papers posted—including a map of abandoned uranium mines surrounding the community and a public health announcement about testing for radiation exposure.
November 27, 2024 at 5:05 AM
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Hey friends, my print shop is open for the holidays 🥰

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A screenshot of a print shop website with photos from the photographer Caitlin O’Hara (hi, that’s yours truly), the photos include: a snowy fruit tree blossom, a prickly pear cactus blooming with yellow flowers, a saguaro cactus under a full moon in the Sonoran desert with the Yavapai landmark We-Ko-Pa (Four Peaks) in the background, and other landscape scenes.
November 18, 2024 at 4:20 PM
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one more from birding yesterday at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds in Patagonia, Arizona 🪶 a violet-crowned hummingbird 🤩
a cute puffed-up violet crowned hummingbird perches on a branch at the Patton Center for Hummingbirds in Patagonia, Arizona
November 18, 2024 at 3:42 AM
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two photos from being outside ALL day. my favorite kind of day. a broad-billed hummingbird on the left and a grey squirrel on the right
A broad-billed hummingbird perches on a branch with his red beak and green feathers shining in the sunshine at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds in Patagonia, Arizona A grey squirrel eats a fruit tree leaf at the Paton Center for Hummingbirds in Patagonia, Arizona
November 17, 2024 at 3:24 AM
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Had so much fun birding in Patagonia, AZ today
a group of birders watch for wildlife in early morning light around cottonwood trees, sycamore trees and oak trees in Paganini’s, Arizona. Some of the leaves are golden yellow.
November 17, 2024 at 2:23 AM
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Substance (2024)
A photo of my fried egg earrings in a blue dish that looks a little like a shot from the movie Substance (2024)
September 25, 2024 at 4:15 PM
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She’s named after a pork dish and she’s perfect.
A text conversation of me asking my friend if he’s up to date on Moo Deng —filled with stickers I made from photographs of Thai icon Moo Deng, the two-month old pigmy hippo at Chon Buri’s Khao Khew Open Zoo who is named after a pork patty dish
September 11, 2024 at 6:39 PM
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Charlie Jane Anders:
“Daydreaming is the opposite of doomscrolling”
!!!!!!
#xoxofest
August 25, 2024 at 12:14 AM
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Sarah Jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social speaking so honestly about being the target of racist rightwing harassment campaigns. With humor and her signature analysis — we’re so lucky to share this space with her.
#xoxofest
Journalist and editor Sarah Jeong on stage in a blue skirt talking about her experience being targeted by a racist right wing hate campaign.
August 24, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Erin Kissane @kissane.bsky.social speaking about COVID tracking project
“It feels like we’re building a bridge as we walk it”.
#xoxofest
Writer/researcher Erin Kissane wearing. Bellow shirt with coral pink hair standing on stage at XOXO Fest in Portland. The stage has purple velvet curtains. On the screen behind Erin is says “we fix the fucking networks”.
August 24, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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I saw a ruff over the weekend 🥰
a juvenile or first year ruff—a tan-headed shorebird with long black legs, a football shaped body and brown and white feathers sticking up on its back— walks through shallow water looking for snacks on May 31, 2024 at the Gilbert Riparian Area in Gilbert, Arizona, USA.
June 3, 2024 at 7:57 PM
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Found this pic of me holding a snail at my grandad’s near Cowcliff in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire. I really have always been like this lol
A small me in baggy overalls with one shoe on, holding a snail and looking rather cheeky
November 8, 2023 at 5:51 PM
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I want the club sandwich!!!!!!!
The meme of Keanu Reeves sitting on a park bench having a snack and looking introspective
July 30, 2023 at 10:10 PM