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Richard Kelly Photography

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Past President National ASMP https://linktr.ee/richardkellyphoto

11/06/2026

New York City is where I became an adult, where I launched my career as a photographer, and where I learned what it meant to be an artist.

The friends I made during those years helped shape my creative life in ways I probably didn’t fully appreciate at the time. We shared ideas, challenged one another, explored possibilities, and imagined what our lives might become.

Fanelli’s Café was one of those places where conversations lasted for hours, friendships grew, and ideas took shape.

Returning here reminds me that so much of who we become is shaped by the people we meet along the way.

And I’m grateful for every one of them.

Photo by my great friend Ian Gittler

10/27/2026

Donnie Ierace “Iris” - 1943-2026 - a performer like no other. Everyone in eastern Ohio and western Pennsylvania thought he was their best friend. He was just “Donnie” to them. He gave it all. And “ that’s the way that love oughta be.”

Photo circa 1985 Summers on the Beach Fort Lauderdale Spring Break.

10/25/2026

Pittsburgh, Jennifer, LaGuardia

10/14/2026

Pittsburgh Friends my Fashion photography course students at Point Park University are looking for new comers and even established Talent for roles as models, makeup artists, Hair stylists, fashion designers, clothes makers and other fashion artists for opportunities to build a portfolio join a community and have fun making work you love.

Reach out to me I am assembling a list [email protected]

10/09/2026

Some of my favorite Donnie Iris Moments and there have been a lot of them.

Jeree studios in New Brighton circa 1989
“Poletown” cd package in West Aliquippa
Donnie Iris and the Cruisers at Nick’s Fat City, southside during the recording of Live at Nick’s Fat City CD package.

10/09/2026

My friend Donnie has decided to turn off the amplifier and lay down the microphone.

He and the cruisers showed us that Love is Like a Rock! Donnie Iris and the Cruisers

09/22/2026

Kada_Creative at work on Saturday at MODE festival by Flickr

09/15/2026

This semester at Point Park, I am teaching a fashion photography course - for the first time. I have avoided the topic, but this year I have students with the passion and interest to go down the rabbit hole with me. I used to say fashion ended just east of Pittsburgh, but over the last twenty years we've had American Eagle, Rue21, Dick's Sporting Goods, and a slew of local designers and fashion-adjacent people make Western Pennsylvania their home, so this class makes sense now. I have been digging through my archives and found this picture made in Billings, Montana, during an Esquire Magazine shoot with Actor/Model/Rodeo Cowboy Brad Johnson - who, btw, took the picture. It was cold and rainy, but we had a lot of fun with this crew. Kurt Markus, Me, Susan Claire, John Mather, and Lynn Barron.
The story was illustrated on working ranches around Billings, and a few cowboys were cast to play themselves. These adventures are packaged with a lot of stories I remember every once in a while. For this class, I am reconnecting with people whom I used to work with- photographers, assistants, stylists, editors, models. If you are one of these people, DM me; I would love to record an interview for this class.

09/13/2026

For two years the was the scene from my bedroom window. Four seasons -
Night and day, rainy days or sunny views. The WTC was my compass. No matter where I was in the city I could orient myself when I saw the twin towers. I was telling a friend yesterday on the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 experience that countless days too many to recall, I was in the towers in the subway, at Fed Ex, in the shopping level, I would meet people there for drinks or lunch. I took my sister to the top to see what we could see.

When I have visited NYC after September 11 2001 I admit my internal compass is off.

09/07/2026

I was looking for something else and stumbled on this snapshot from 1987-88, Art Kane and I sitting Inna cafe in Rome. We were there working on a fashion advertising campaign. You can might catch a small glimpse of the map in my hand. Long before GPS mobile phones. Art had mapped out a walk from the ancient city walls through the city last all of the ancient relics and stopping at the various fountains all timed to Ottorino Respighi‘a Fountains of Rome (Fontane di Roma) that he recorded for me on a Cassette that listened to on my Walkman. He wanted me to have the full multimedia experience, this is the meet up after that walk through the city. I will never forget.

By the way my calculation is that I am 22 in this frame and he is 62 - one year away from my age today. Unbelievable!

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