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Keliy Anderson-Staley was raised off the grid in northern Maine. She has been photographing since 1998. She was a New York Foundation for the Arts Photography Fellow in 2008, and her work has been recognized by a number of national prizes and grants including the Aperture Portfolio Prize, The Griffin Prize, and a Puffin Foundation Grant. Keliy was also a 2010 Light Work artist-in-residence.
Her work has been seen at the California Museum of Photography (Riverside, CA), The Bronx Museum of Art, John Cleary Gallery (Houston, TX), Susan Maasch Fine Art (Portland, ME), Texas Woman's University (Denton, TX), The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA), Flanders Art Gallery (Raleigh, NC), Flomenhaft Gallery (New York, NY), Jenkins Johnson Gallery (New York and San Francisco), University of New England (Portland, ME), Simmons College Art Gallery (Boston, MA), The Griffin Museum of Photography (Winchester, MA), RayKo Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Tilt Gallery (AZ), 23 Sandy Gallery (Portland, OR) and Gallery Aferro (Newark, NJ), Johnson C. Smith University (Charlotte, NC), Maine Media Workshops (Rockland, ME). She has work in upcoming shows at The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA), Flanders Art Gallery (Raleigh, NC), University of the Ozarks (Clarksville, AR), Arkansas Tech University (Russellville, AR), Corcoran Art Gallery (Washington, DC) and In Focus Gallery (Cologne, Germany).
Her work has been published or will shortly appear in Camerawork, New York Magazine, Photo District News, Hemispheres Magazine, Art & Auction, F-Stop Magazine, Moment Magazine, Esquire Russia, and Art New England. Her "Off the Grid" series was also featured as a Daylight Magazine video-cast.
Keliy has been shooting wet plate collodion portraits for over six years. She has taught the process in workshops at the Center for Alternative Photography, Bakery Collective in Westbrook, ME, and at Hampshire College, Bowdoin College and New Jersey City University. She currently travels between Arkansas, New York and Maine to produce her work.
To learn more about her work, see www.andersonstaley.com
Images of a tintype photo booth event at the California Museum of Photography 2009:

All above images taken by Reginald Woolery 2009