Kelly Fitzgerald

True to her roots as a native Californian, Kelly Fitzgerald captures the images, faces and landscapes of our ever changing culture. She has an established, excellent reputation for producing uniquely creative and quality images within the field of black and white photography.

With over seventeen years of experience with commercial photography and portraiture, Fitzgerald has developed a style of precision that has won her a following of local clientele eager to use the talent she exudes to mix people with the world around her. Fitzgerald's work has been featured every year in The Best of Photography Annual since 1998, Photographer's Forum Magazine (Nov. 1998), San Diego Magazine, San Diego Bride & Groom, covers for Revolt in Style Magazine (including actor Ray Liotta), G&L Times and Coiffure Q Magazine based out of London.

Fitzgerald has received top honors including 4th place in the Photographer's Forum Magazine & Canon Photography Contest (1998), several awards at the Southern California Fair and has had her work accepted by the New York State Fair. Her photographs have appeared in numerous exhibits in various art galleries including Europe, Mexico and throughout Southern California including the San Diego Art Institute. Recently, her work was exhibited in a show with legends Cecil Beaton and Linda McCartney. She also won an award at The Hubbard Museum in Association with The Smithsonian Institution in 2003. Fitzgerald was the first photographer to receive the Gene Harrison Memorial Award in November of 2003.


This one is called "Mono Lake Basin". When I first saw this image, I can only tell that it was a neat landscape photograph. But when I looked closer, I found out if I look at it as a whole, this image appears to be symmetrical and I think that's what this image is all about.


This on is called "Bodie House". It is interesting because it was taken from the right spot at a perfect angle when all the clouds were just around the house but not touching the house as if they were drew on the photo afterward. This again reminds the 2D feature of photography.


This one is called "Old Door and Windows". It is a photo with a lot of black and white contrast and we can easily tell that the photographer really spent some time dodging the the ground and the grass. In my opinion, the reason for this is to emphasize the darkness window and therefore create a mysterious feeling about what are inside the house.


This one is called "A natural arch has formed over the gate to an open field in a picturesque Kauai, Hawaii." It really caught my eye because the trees and the ground formed a shape of a arch. And with the little open door and the several objects on the background, it gave me a feeling of gate to another world.


This one is called "A wooden swing hangs alone over the ocean in Kauai, Hawaii creating a feeling of solitude.". I like this one because of 2 reasons: 1. things shown on the photo being limited has always been a disadvantage for photo, but the photographer just used this feature and made the swing seem to come from the sky. 2. It used colors to trick us. The color of the same swing, with different darkness of the background, seems to be different.