Brian Kelly used a drone to capture the city during quarantine. The result: a new photography book.
Portraits of a city PROFILE
Brian Kelly used a drone to capture images of Grand Rapids — his first muse. BY SAM EASTER
// PHOTOS BY TERI GENOVESE
Brian Kelly, the seasoned Grand Rapids photographer, is 52 now, with more than two decades in the field behind him. He has a lot of long thoughts about what makes a good shot — and has a portfolio to back them up — the spindly, soaring work of a Spanish architect, a boxer mid-swing, Anderson Cooper with a little sphinxlike smile. Now in the back half of his career, he has a book coming out soon, "Aerial: Grand Rapids from Above." That book might be one of his most personal works yet. He’s a well-known portrait guy and commercial photography expert, but he got his start shooting Grand Rapids. And his GR M AG .CO M
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