About

Kael Alford is a photographer, writer, and educator whose work spans political violence, environmental justice, and the tenuous personal relationship to others.

Alford began her career as a photojournalist covering the violent dissolution of Yugoslavia from 1996-2002 and spent many months in Iraq photographing the impact of the U.S.-led invasion on Iraqi civilians. In 2005, she began photographing coastal communities in Louisiana, home of her grandmother’s lineage, impacted by coastal erosion, global warming, and the BP oil spill.

Alford has published two photography books: Bottom of da Boot: Louisiana’s Disappearing Coast (2012) and Unembedded: Four Independent Journalists on the War in Iraq (2005).

Her photographs have been exhibited widely, including at the De Young Museum of Fine Art in San Francisco, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Ogden Museum of Southern Art in New Orleans. Her photographs reside in numerous museum and private collections.

She maintains an active creative practice and has taught in art and journalism departments at several universities in and around her home in Dallas, Texas.

kaelalford@gmail.com