Kelly is an experienced editorial & fine art photographer based in London. She grew up on the salt marshes of the Thames Estuary - an ever changing landscape that inspired a desire to roam. Kelly spent four years in Asia writing and photographing for Channel 4, South China Morning Post, RTHK & the Body Shop before returning to London to work on multimedia projects and exhibitions with Imagination, One World Online & Exploration Architecture. Her photography was short-listed for the Terry O’Neill Award and has been exhibited at Flowers Gallery East, Modern Art Oxford and MODA Atlanta.
Currently based in Camden she combines commissioned work for editorial and design with personal work for exhibitions and publication, represented by Millennium Images. Clients have included - Ackroyd & Harvey, Channel 4, The Compass Group of Schools, Elle Decoration, Evolve, Exploration Architecture, The Financial Times, The Guardian, Hollandse Hoogte, Macmillan, John Murray Publishers, The New Scientist, Picador, Peloton Design, Random House, Scout London, Tate and The School of Life.
Kelly collaborates with Michael Pawlyn and Exploration Architecture on the curation and production of creative content for exhibition, film, publication and web. She helped establish Culture Declares Emergency, a growing community of creative practitioners concerned about the dire state of our living planet. Since launching in April 2019, over 1000 individuals and organisations have ‘declared’ emergency as part of a movement demanding systemic change to support life on Earth. She has also worked closely with Writers Rebel - a group of novelists, poets, screenwriters and academics who use the power of words to claim a safer, fairer future for all the planet’s inhabitants – human and non-human. Most recently on the development of the Paint the Land projects that link high-profile writers with well-loved and emerging visual artists to create landscape graffiti with a powerful ecological message to address the climate and ecological emergency.