He won the Pulitzer Prize for his work on the 2017 Unite the Right Rally in Charlottesville, Virginia,[1][2] for a photograph showing a man running over protestors.
[3][4] He served as a photojournalist at The Daily Progress in Charlottesville, from 2013 to 2017 and is now the Digital and Social Media Coordinator at Ardent Craft Ales.
[5][6] He left the newspaper after nearly four years, citing low pay, long hours, bad schedules and constant stress.
Ryan Kelly's piece “Car Attack” earned him second prize in World Press Photo’s 2018 Spot News contest.
During his time at Christopher Newport University, Kelly worked on the school newspaper, The Captain's Log, as a reporter and editor later picking up a camera, which led to him focusing on photojournalism.