Kaley Clements received an MFA in Experimental Documentary Arts from Duke University. He works in documentary filmmaking, photography, archiving, and community collaboration projects. His research focuses on where social conflict, climate change, and the loss of diversification converge under the power structures of the globalized economy. His collaborations engage community partners in the production process to allow for agency in the ways their stories are shared. His teaching interests align with his research. He engages students in his process by taking them to do fieldwork. His films and photography are screened, published, and exhibited internationally.

His community documentary project สุขภาวะ // Sukhaphawa received a 2025 Patricia R. Zimmermann Fellowship. The fellowship supports ongoing screenings and documentary production with the Thai/Lanna community of Sop Kok to share how the community is handling heavy metal contamination from unregulated transboundary rare earth mining in war-torn Myanmar.

His other recent publications include the film Pace of the Mekong @ 1KM (2025). It has been publicly screened with vested communities in the Mekong Water Basin and at academic institutes. His recent photography Typologie – The Camping Tent (2025) has been published in print. He collaborated on with student Junyi Yu. The project will be exhibited with their video work in London and Milan.