NICK KELLEY
Filling in the Details: The Photography of Nick Kelley
“I’m just a fisherman who started taking photos,” says Nick Kelley, when asked about his vocation. Raised in Denver, Kelley’s family vacations were usually fishing-themed, and he found creative inspiration close to home in his mother, a former television and documentary producer. Kelley happily points out his mom “was—and is—the driving force behind my fishing and my artistic side. She continues to fish longer and harder than me.” Eventually photography found a seat alongside angling, and he found an obsession.
While working as a photo editor at Outside Magazine for three years, Kelley spent countless hours looking at other people’s photography submissions.The experience was transformative; it guided him toward his own photographic interests—a way to shed light on the gaps in outdoor photography. Working with Talweg Creative, a production company based in Santa Fe, NM, Kelley assisted with short films such as “Cosmo,” “In Current,” “Engler” and others. Through Talweg, he again found himself absorbed in others’ photographs, this time while also shooting his own...
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