1. Kelli Connell's photographs are made in color, both in vertical and horizontal frame, with at least two people being shown interacting with one another. Connell uses photoshop to manipulate two or more negative images and creates situations where her subjects are shown together in a certain situation that ultimately relays a message out to viewers.
2. Kelli Connell's photoseries DECODED expresses her own portraiture and lifestyle of her sexuality and being genderfluid. According to Connell, "These photographs reconstruct the private relationships that I have experienced personally, witnessed in public, or watched on television. The events portrayed in these photographs look believable, yet have never occurred. By digitally creating a photograph that is a composite of multiple negatives of the same model in one setting, the self is exposed as not a solidified being in reality, but as a representation of social and interior investigations that happen within the mind."
3. Connell's photographs each have an interest composition with how the models are interacting as well as how color is used in each photo. With this day and age of society beginning to openly express their sexuality and gender, I believe we need more photographers like Kelli Connell to be unafraid, and perhaps influence others who feel the same kinds of struggles Connell had to experience.
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