Kirsty Mackay is a Scottish documentary photographer, activist and filmmaker. Mackay’s research-led documentary practice highlights social issues surrounding gender, class and discrimination. She has an MA in Documentary photography from University of South Wales, Newport. Her current book and exhibition project The Magic Money Tree, is a collaborate document of the Cost-of-Living crisis.

 

Working alongside and teaching photography to children and young people across the UK. The Magic Money Tree attaches individual’s experiences with the structural, political, and economic. It shows us what poverty looks like in the world’s 6th richest economy. As a working-class artist, Kirsty’s own experiences allow her empathy, connection and insight into the stories of the people she photographs, whilst connecting these experiences to the political and economic power structures of the British class system.