Kael Alford was born in Middletown, NY in 1971. Kael is a freelance photojournalist who has spent more than eight months in Iraq. She was based in Baghdad before, and during the US invasion of Iraq in 2003. She returned again at the end of 2003 and in 2004 to document the changes in the country during the US occupation. Her work from Iraq focuses on the impact of war on civilians, the culture of resistance, religion, and grass roots political movements developing since the invasion.
At the White Dog, Kael will offer photographs from her time in Iraq and give first hand accounts of the impact of war on the people of Iraq. Kael has worked extensively covering culture, politics and conflict in Southeast Europe and the Middle East for many major US and European magazines and newspapers. Her work from the conflicts in Kosovo and Macedonia was recognized in the Pictures of the Year competition in 2001 and 2002. She has a master's degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism and has taught photojournalism at the American University of Bulgaria. She is based in New York and Atlanta and is represented by Panos Pictures in London.
Kael is one of the photographers featured in the CBC documentary Beyond Words
The film focuses on the world's top war photojournalists, and attempts to turn the lens of attention onto them as they reflect upon their experience photographing war and conflicts.
