He is the winner of the inaugural Tim Hetherington Visionary Award. His company Jongsma + O'Neill has created stories and branded content for clients like Red Bull Media Group, VPRO Television, Siemens, The Creators Project and Vice. His films and installations have shown at museums, galleries and film festivals all over the world. From 2010 to 2013, Kel traveled more than 200,000 kilometers through ten countries to film the immersive documentary project "Empire"​ (IDFA 2012, NYFF 2013), which won top prize at PBS's 2nd POV Hackathon in 2013 and was presented as part of the SXSW Digital Domain program in 2014. In September 2014 the Emmy Award-winning documentary show POV acquired the interactive version of "Empire."