Katy Haas is a documentary photographer and filmmaker from New Hampshire. She has worked with Stephen David Entertainment, Ark Media, and for many years with Ken Burns's production company Florentine Films, on award winning projects including on The Dust Bowl, Country Music and Benjamin Franklin.
Her independent work explores the personal and environmental impacts of policy--including on startup farms in New England and multi-generation family farms in post-Celtic Tiger Ireland, North Atlantic shipping and Icelandic whaling. La Frontière, about border communities in Maine produced and directed with Megan Ruffe, has been broadcast on multiple PBS stations and nominated for a BNE Emmy.
She holds a bachelors degree from Smith College in American Studies and a certificate from Salt Institute for Documentary Studies. She attended the Burren College of Art, where she later received an artist residency for her photographs of farms on Ireland's west coast. This work also brought her a residency at Bakery Photo Collective in Westbrook, Maine, and a grant from the Monica Flaherty Frassetto Fund. She has attended photo workshops with Eugene Richards and Western Kentucky University's Mountain Workshops. She has taught photography in New York and around New England.