KayLynn Deveney / Bio
KayLynn Deveney was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The first of two children, she came home from the hospital in a new Mercury and a desert wind storm. Though really too pale for the sunny Southwest, KayLynn grew up in Albuquerque, earned a Bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of New Mexico, and became a staff photographer for the Albuquerque Tribune where she worked for nine years. While at the paper KayLynn produced photographic stories on a wide variety of topics including extended essays on a Mexican couple who immigrated to New Mexico and became an American family, and the small New Mexico town called Pie Town that Farm Securities Administration photographer Russell Lee photographed in 1940.        In 1997 KayLynn took a one-year leave of absence from the newspaper and lived and photographed in Belfast, Northern Ireland. She walked all over the city and photographed most days. It was great.      In 1999 KayLynn, her boyfriend and her cameras crossed the water again so that KayLynn could attend graduate school in the UK. She earned a master's degree in documentary photography at the University of Wales, Newport, for which she photographed Edith and Leonard Crawshaw, an elderly couple who lived in a nursing home.      KayLynn stayed on in Newport to undertake a practice-based Ph.D. in photography and she is still working on her dissertation which involves the ways contemporary and historical photographic diaries and self books address myths of domesticity.      KayLynn’s photographic work has been exhibited in the United States and Britain and is held in permanent collections including those of The Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago, Illinois and Light Work in Syracuse, New York. KayLynn has been an adjunct instructor at the University of Wales, Newport, Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio, the Continuing Education department at the Cleveland Institute of Art and most recently in the Art and Art History Department at the University of New Mexico.   KayLynn's first photographic book The Day-to-Day Life of Albert Hastings was published by Princeton Architectural Press in August, 2007.      In 2005 KayLynn returned to New Mexico where she now lives with the boyfriend (who became her husband), her friends, her family and the wind.
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