Cinematographer / Photographer / Educator
Dr Kelly Mac
Kelly is an energetic visual storyteller. Working across film, photography, and higher education, Kelly explores narrative storytelling. As a sessional academic at Griffith University and Griffith College, she works with photography and design students to develop their creative research skills and explore expanded visual practices. Her personal work documents social change and female empowerment. Her print collection is a series of engineered serendipity with the natural world. Like all encounters with mother nature a privileged moment of chance.
Storyteller
Kelly is a visual storyteller. Completing her doctoral thesis in 2016 on the photographic documentation of the human factors contributing to the immense social change that has resulted in a substantial reduction in Maternal Deaths in Nepal. The project was a result of a 5-year collaboration with International Non-Profit, One Heart World-Wide.
To see more of her projects, click below.
Educator
As a sessional academic for Griffith University, Kelly lectures and tutors across the Bachelor of Photography, Bachelor of Design and Bachelor of Creative and Interactive Media. She enjoys the incredible diversity in her teaching portfolio, each day moving from developing first-year critical skills in research methodologies and foundational photographic concepts to third-year students producing their first character-driven short films. To find out more click below.
Content Creator.
When not teaching, I freelance for my own business Kelly Mac Media, working with companies to develop visual content across platforms. I work alongside brands to produce images and film. Working alongside clients to tell the stories of their brands, I have created content across fashion, food, content production, and commercial enterprises.
Explorer.
These prints encapsulate Kelly’s love of life in their dancing lights and moody darks. She sees them as privileged moments gifted to her, and she hopes that by sharing them they bring you energy, vitality and love.
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
Follow my journey. @kellymacmedia
