Cambridge Massachusetts-based  Kelly Conlin began photographing in the 1970s, when he borrowed his father's Kodak Retinette, built a basement dark room and started a photography business while in high school. He charged $1.80 to develop a roll of Tri-X (the circa 1975 price list is here), and was aided by the ever useful Kodak Photoguide.

After beginning his career as a journalist, he was pulled to the business side of magazine publishing and, despite the opportunity to travel the world, a briefcase replaced his camera. In recent years, as he rekindled his early passion for photography, he aspires to no longer see the world largely from a rushing taxi or a bustling hotel lobby, but to take the time to slow down, absorb, and reflect on where he is and who he encounters—listening and learning while photographing everyday moments. 

Awards

Paris International Street Photography Awards (PISPA) 2024- Gold Medal, Silver MedalBronze Medal, Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, Honrable Mention

International Photography Awards (IPA) 2024  1st Place and  Honorable Mention

PX3 Prix de la Photographie Paris 2024 - 2nd Place,  Gold Medal,  Gold Medal ,  Honorable Mention,   Honorable Mention,  Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention

Lens Culture Street Photography Awards 2024 - Editors Pick

Monovisions Black & White Photography Awards 2024 - Honorable Mention 

Street Photographers Foundation Awards 2024 - 2024 Editors Pick

Street Macadam Street Photography Awards 2024, Editors'Pick

Istanbul Street Photography Festival 2024, Finalist 

ND Magazine Photography Awards 2023 - Honorable Mention

Lens Culture Art Photography Awards 2023 - Editors' Pick

Photographic Society of America 2023 - Merit Award

Paris International Street Photography Awards (PISPA) 2023 -Bronze (3rd Place), Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention , Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention, Honorable Mention , Honorable Mention 



Group Exhibitions

Street Photographers Foundation - Best of Street Photographers Foundation Exhibition 2024 at the Tehran Street Photography Festival, December 2024

Griffin Museum of Photography - Winter Solstice, December 2024 

Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts - Snapshot America: A Portrait of these United States 2024, October 2024

Plymouth Center for the Arts - 57th Annual Juried Art Show, 1st Place, Photography September 2024

PhotoPlace GalleryLight and Shadow October 2024  

Praxis GalleryStreets September 2024 

A Smith GalleryPortraits August 2024

New York Center for Photographic Art - Colors of the Commonplace 3rd Place, March 2024

Photo Place Gallery - "Monochrome" February 2024 

Praxis Gallery - "Open Theme" February 2024

Paris International Street Photo Awards - "Xposure", UAE, February 2024

The Curated Fridge2024 Winter Show, January 2024

Photographic Resource Center -  Exposure December 2023 

Griffin Museum of Photography - Winter Solstice December 2023

Plymouth Center for the Arts - 56th Annual  Juried Art Show 2nd Place ,Photography, September 2023

Main Street Arts -  Small Works  November 2023

A Smith Gallery  - Colors December 2023

Photo Place Gallery - Poetry of the Ordinary, November 2023

Mistlin Gallery - Celebration of the Arts, October 2023


Publications

Cuba Seen Magazine -  The Cuban Heart

ForoNostrum Magazine - The Awards Issue



"One of the many rewards of street photography is the connection you make--however brief--between photographer and subject. It can be explicit or implicit, a long conversation or a fleeting glance, often even surreptitious, but it results in a connection preserved. The privilege of capturing the lives around us." Havana, 2023.

Contact

Email: kelly@conlin.com

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