Kelly Hofer is a visual storyteller and artist, who started his professional life as a teenager taking pictures of his days growing up in a Hutterite colony in Manitoba.

He loved art from a very young age. Photography followed and he used the cameras on the colony to document life there in an artistic way.

However, being gay on the colony was viewed with disdain and with art being something that Hutterites didn't support; Kelly decided to leave the traditional values of the colony behind for a more accepting society where he could pursue his dreams as an artist and promote Hutterite culture through his work.

His book, simply titled Hutterite, is an intimate portrait and honest portrayal from the inside of a Hutterite colony on the Canadian prairies.

In addition to Kelly's creative work, he also helped ignite a national, mainstream conversation about LGBT Hutterites for the first time.