Brenda Ann Kenneally was born in New York in 1959 and continues to live and work in New York. She received her BS in photojournalism and sociology from the University of Miami, was a Soros Criminal Justice Media Fellow, and has an MA in studio art from New York University. Her work has been featured in The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and Ms. Magazine, among other publications. Brenda Ann Kenneally is a two-time winner of the NPPA-Nikon Documentary Sabbatical Grant. She was awarded the International Prize for Photojournalism in Gijon, Spain, 2001 and won the NPPA-University of Missouri POY Community Awareness Award. Raw and uncompromising, Brenda’s work frequently documents the urban drug culture of impoverished inner city neighborhoods in America, and with equal measure of compassion, expands our understanding of the deeply personal struggles, challenges, hopes and dreams that women and children living in poverty face every day.

Little Mami’s
Brooklyn, New York
2001