Kael alford biography

Kael Alford is an American photojournalist and documentary photographer and videographer. She commenced her media career during the tumultuous wars in the Balkans between 1996 and 2003 that occurred with the fracturing of Yugoslavia.

She documented the conflicts in the Middle East and the Iraq War (2003-2004) as unembedded journalist which gave her a different perspective than those who worked in conjunction with the American military. Her photographs from Iraq are included in the book Unembedded: Four Independent Photojournalists on the War in Iraq.

Since 2005 she has been documenting the effects of erosion and the oil industry upon the wetlands, coasts, landscapes and the communities of Louisiana that are dependent upon marine resources.

Two of the communities she has concentrated on, Isle de Jean Charles and Pointe-aux-Chenes, were used as contexts for the recent film “Beasts of the Southern Wild” with social issues and poverty that are so evident in the