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 Medal, Bronze 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 Gallery - Light and Shadow October 2024
Praxis Gallery - Streets September 2024
A Smith Gallery - Portraits 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 Fridge - 2024 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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