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
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
Fast Company
TIME
Fortune
DIE ZEIT
Metropolis
Télérama
The Atlantic
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