Copyright © Paddy Kelly

Born in Belfast, 1986

BA (Hons) Photography, University of Ulster, Belfast (2008 - 2011)
HND Graphic Design, Belfast Metropolitan College (2005-2007)

Belfast Photo Factory

My current work attempts to express and explore how thought, feeling and individual experience can be communicated and distilled through the photograph. I am interested in situations that are intrinsically human and which have elements of both the higher and lower aspects of human experience; more specifically the borders between the two.

COLLECTIONS
Queen’s University, Belfast
Private collections in Ireland and UK

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
July - Sept “Bogland”; Fort Dunree, Donegal
2011
Oct - Nov ”Manouvers”; Hereford Photographic Festival, Hereford (with Mark Paul)
July - Sept “Bogland”; Gerard Dillon gallery, Belfast

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Dec Belfast Photo Factory member show, Gallery 9, Belfast
Nov - Dec Project 30: Emerging Views of Ireland; Gallery of Photography, Dublin
Aug Prophecy; St.Marys University College, Belfast
2011
Nov FotoWeekDC; Blank Space SE, Washington DC
Aug “Belfast Photo Factory: One Month Book Project“; Belfast Photo Festival, Belfast Exposed
June Degree show; University of Ulster, Belfast

OTHER
2011

Sept - Nov Artist in residence - ARCH Development Corporation, Washington DC
July SOURCE Photographic Review; issue 67/Summer 2011
July Selected by Anne McNeill/Impressions Gallery for SOURCE Photographic Review for emerging photographic talent - view
July Artist in residence - Community Vision Project, Scariff Festival 2011, Co. Clare
Apr - present Belfast Photo Factory, co-founder