Kael Alford
Kael has worked extensively covering culture, politics and conflict in the Balkans and the Middle East for many US and European magazines and newspapers including Time, Newsweek, US News and World Report, The New York Times, Times (London), The Guardian, The San Fransisco Chronicle, NRC Handelsbad (Netherlands), Vanity Fair, and others. She was based in the Balkans from 1996-2003. Her work from the conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia was recognized in the Pictures of the Year competition in 2001 and the Best of Photojournalism in 2002.
Kael was based in Baghdad during the US invasion of Iraq and worked there until 2004. Her photography from Iraq focuses on the birth of the Iraqi resistance groups, and the impact of the US invasion on security and the lives of Iraqi civilians. That work was included in the book and exhibition "Unembedded: Four Independent Journalists on the War in Iraq."
Kael has a master's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and has also taught photojournalism at the American University of Bulgaria. She is currently working on a project on the coast of Louisiana and teaches documentary photography at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta. She is represented by Panos Pictures in London.
She was born in Middletown, NY, 1971.
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