WE HAVE FRIENDS EVERYWHERE
Writing and photography about democracy,
community, the natural world, and the things that connect us.
LATEST WRITING
- Weekly Reflection: Unserious People, Serious Power
There is something profoundly exhausting about having to take unserious people seriously.
- When One Lever Fails, Pull Another
Andy Biggs’s Supreme Court amendment failed. It is the larger effort to lock power into place that should concern us.
- Desperate People Do Desperate Things
I don’t know what will happen in November. Neither do they. But increasingly, Republicans are behaving like people who understand that […]
ARTIST. PHOTOGRAPHER. WRITER.
My name is Kelli Klymenko — I’m an artist, photographer, writer, and lifelong observer of the world. I live in Sedona, Arizona. For more than three decades, my work has moved between art, photography, nature, technology, and the ideas that shape how we understand one another.
This site brings those threads together.
PHOTOGRAPHY
For more than three decades, photography has been one of the ways I explore the world — from the landscapes and wildlife of the Southwest to the small, unexpected moments that are easy to miss.
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