kailee.
so...who
artist
Kailee claims she’s never really
can. Right now, she’s focused
been much of a traditional art-
on creating digiatally illustrated
ist. However she always loved
headshots. She’s created some of
to create. After a graphic design
celebrities, friends and family, and
workshop in high school, she re-
even started some commission
alized she had a knack for digital
work.
illustration. “People loved my designs, it real-
“Crowned,” which features black
ly surprised me.”
women and all the diverse ways
This has driven Kailee to keep on creating, and learning all she
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Her latest series is entitled
they are able to wear their natural hair.
photographer
is kailee?
From a young age Kailee was
D5100. Kailee explains that her
always fascinated by cameras.
photos are simply her way of
Her father instilled this in her. He
telling the stories that the world
always had video cameras or point
whispers to her.
and shoots on hand, because he
Kailee spent the past summer
felt he had to document every-
interning with a professional family
thing. Something that Kailee has
photographer, through which she
definitely inherited.
learned a lot. She is now applying
Several years ago she received her first professional camera as a gift from her father—a Nikon
what she learned to her current freelance shoots.
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a little more about kailee. Kailee was born to Jamaican parents and raised in Miami, Florida. She is also currently attending university in New York City. This has allowed her a culturally diverse take on the world which she utilizes in her storytelling and hopes to carry throughout her career.