About — Kelsey McClellan

OVERVIEW

Kelsey McClellan lives in San Francisco, where she works as a photographer. When she isn’t taking photos of the playful topiaries and colorful houses of her oceanside neighborhood, McClellan shoots for a wide array of clients from around the world. She is a One Club for Creativity Young Guns (2018) and PDN’s The 30 (2020) Winner. Her studio is located in the mission district of San Francisco.

CONTACT

kelseyemcclellan@gmail.com
614-915-7515
Instagram

SELECT CLIENTS

Airbnb, Adobe, Apple, Coors, Instacart, Hermès, GoPuff, Häagen-Dazs, Quaker, Sonic Drive-In, Chipotle, Converse, PAX, Levi’s, COS, Zappos, Zevia, CAVA, Square, Oura Ring, Rivian, Robinhood, Lyft, Aesop, Herschel, The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The New Yorker, Bon Appétit, WSJ, Wired, Surface, Interview, Wallpaper*, Medium, Popular Mechanics, Runner’s World, Refinery 29, Inc. Magazine, TIME, Fortune, ZEIT, Metropolis, The Atlantic, Télérama, Colossus, The Economist

BOOKS, EXHIBITIONS,
AND AWARDS

2026 — AP 42 Selected Award (Wrapped Objects) AI-AP
2025 — Park Life Gallery, Wrapped Objects, San Francisco, CA, USA
2025 — New York Portfolio Review attendee
2025 — AP 41 Chosen Award (WSJ My Ride, Buicks) AI-AP
2023 — AP 39 Selected Award (Dutch Black Light) AI-AP
2022 — AP 38 Selected Award (If This Isn’t Nice) AI-AP
2022 — Makers’ Yard, Culture Pool (group exhibition), Somerset, UK
2021 — If This Isn’t Nice by Kelsey McClellan, Self-Published
2021 — Stephanie Chefas Projects, New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee, Portland, OR, USA
2021 — New Color in the Times of Slow Coffee by Michelle Maguire, Kelsey McClellan and Kristin Texeira, Self-Published (part of permanent collections at these Fine Arts Libraries: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harvard, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Ohio State University, Ringling College of Art & Design, Yale)
2020 — The 30: New and Emerging Photographers to Watch Winner
2020 — AP 36 Selected Award (Bloomberg Businessweek) AI-AP
2018 — The One Club for Creativity, Young Guns 16 Winner
2018 — AP 34 Chosen Award (American Dreamsicle) AI-AP
2017 — PDN Objects of Desire, First Place
2014 — Jeni’s Splendid Ice Cream Desserts by Jeni Britton Bauer, Published by Artisan