Artist Statement
Kelly Burgess is a young photographer living in Arlington, MA. She has been photographing for over 10 years. Her most recent work explores the internal struggle with being diagnosed with a mental illness and forcing her way through to overcome that. Inspired by the everyday, her images are quiet reflections of her own life and experiences.

 

 

Kelly Burgess (she/her) is a project-based conceptual photographer, curator, publisher, and arts administrator that lives and works in rural Vermont. Emotional narrative is the thematic thread running through her work, with much of her own photography and writing coming directly from personal experiences.

Kelly is a regular editorial contributor to the New York Times. Her work has also been published in Kodak's Kodachrome Magazine, GROW Magazine, PDNEdu, and Art New England Magazine - where she was featured as one of their 30 Photographers Under 30. Her sold-out book/project, Sing Me Back Home, has been exhibited internationally, more recently at the Arctic Arts Festival in Norway, MassArt Museum, and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston.

In addition to her personal work, she has over a decade of experience in arts administration. In 2020 Kelly joined the Too Tired Project, a nonprofit arts organization advancing mental health advocacy through photography, as their Executive Director. With TTP, she launched Too Tired Press, where she works as the Publisher. Her mission for Too Tired Press is to focus on creating transparent, equitable, and affordable relationships between artists and the publishing industry.