Kirsty Mackay is a Scottish documentary photographer[1] living in Bristol.
[2][4] She studied photography at Glasgow College before leaving for New York City and London, to work as a photographer's assistant.
She gained an MA in Documentary Photography from the University of Wales, Newport.
[3][5][6][7] In 2017 Mackay won the Rebecca Vassie Memorial Award, mentoring and a bursary of £1250 to help in making her project The Fish that Never Swam.
Mackay's project is in response to the Glasgow effect, "the impact housing and overcrowding has on the life expectancy of Glaswegians".