Kylie Melinda Smith has worked as a documentary photographer for the South China Morning Post, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Weekend Australian Magazine, and was the senior photographer at The Bulletin. Smith has had solo exhibitions in Sydney and at the Directors Guild of America in Los Angeles. She won the 2019 Portia Geach People’s Choice Award for her painting of dancer Eileen Kramer and is a semi-finalist in the 2020 Darling Portrait Prize.