Kayleigh Lough was born and raised in the rural town of St. James, Missouri. Lough attended school in San Francisco and completed her B.F.A. in Photography at the Kansas City Art Institute. She currently resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, though her work often takes her back home to the Ozark Mountains and surrounding areas. Lough photographs images of the past and a somewhat distant present, toying with the ideas of the conscious vs. subconscious, perception and time. She often utilizes elements of the everyday, dreams, memories, and the surreal within her work. Depending on the project, the work varies in medium, spanning both digital and film formats. Lough dwells on the ordinary, mundane elements of landscape and nature, hoping to create a sense of familiarity between viewer and image. She often uses the self, as a character or universal element in her more narrative work.  Cathartic in nature, her work is an obsession with the interconnectedness of human beings through shared experience and perception. Creating psychological spaces where those who view her work can have their own personal experience.