Kelly West is an award-winning photojournalist and filmmaker whose work has been featured in publications and festivals across the country. She started her career working for newspapers and wire services, including 14 years at the Austin American-Statesman where she covered stories that took her from the border wall in the Rio Grande Valley to military hospitals in Afghanistan. She earned her master's degree in journalism from UT-Austin in 2010, and went on to teach the first accredited photojournalism course at Austin Community College for nearly a decade. West has worked as a cinematographer on feature-length documentaries, including Running with Beto and Boycott, and produced and edited many short films for editorial publications including The Intercept, Atlas Obscura, and Texas Monthly. She lives in Austin, Texas with her partner, their dog, and three chickens that rarely lay an egg.
