Selected Works
Bio
Kelly Thompson:
I studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and then graphic design at Penn State University. After graduating, I began what was to become an 8 year love affair with traveling, taking the oddest jobs in order to travel to 48 of the states, Europe, northern Africa, and Australia.
Settling down in upstate New York, I took a job as the creative director for an advertising agency which lasted four years. I came to Vieques on vacation in 2003 with a broken heart. Vieques mended it and i've been here ever since working as a graphic designer for clients here and retaining clients from the states.
Travel photography is a way to capture a moment and take it home with you. To document a world so foreign from your own.
I still feel like I am traveling in Vieques. I still find things every day that challenge me or capture my eye. Now having lived on Vieques for almost ten years I am finding myself drawn to the things that have become somewhat familiar. Things that i see everyday take on new meaning when looked at from a "design" standpoint. The shape, texture, pattern... the contrast of an old car door against a bed of dried leaves becomes so fascinating to me.
I'm very grateful for that.
I studied photography at Rochester Institute of Technology and then graphic design at Penn State University. After graduating, I began what was to become an 8 year love affair with traveling, taking the oddest jobs in order to travel to 48 of the states, Europe, northern Africa, and Australia.
Settling down in upstate New York, I took a job as the creative director for an advertising agency which lasted four years. I came to Vieques on vacation in 2003 with a broken heart. Vieques mended it and i've been here ever since working as a graphic designer for clients here and retaining clients from the states.
Travel photography is a way to capture a moment and take it home with you. To document a world so foreign from your own.
I still feel like I am traveling in Vieques. I still find things every day that challenge me or capture my eye. Now having lived on Vieques for almost ten years I am finding myself drawn to the things that have become somewhat familiar. Things that i see everyday take on new meaning when looked at from a "design" standpoint. The shape, texture, pattern... the contrast of an old car door against a bed of dried leaves becomes so fascinating to me.
I'm very grateful for that.