Photography by Kaitlyn Hession — The Bundy Museum of Historical past & Artwork

Artist Statement:
Ever since I realized about movie pictures in group school, I’ve taken a liking to and appreciation for the medium. Not simply due to the way it seems, however the work behind it. Rather than seeing an instantaneous picture on fashionable digital cameras, the movie used within the analog cameras should be developed by way of a machine (or by hand) with sure kinds of chemical substances, relying on the movie sort earlier than you possibly can see the picture you took. All that work to see the pictures you took all the time fascinated me for some cause.

Along with movie pictures, I’ve additionally taken an curiosity in Stop Motion Animation previously. It was by no means as severe as pictures is for me, however it has all the time been one thing I discovered attention-grabbing due to the same cause why I get pleasure from movie: The fashion and work behind it.

Most cease movement movies take anyplace from months to years to complete due to the quantity of element wanted for every character’s motion. The standard Tim Burton film ‘The Nightmare Before Christmas’ took 3.5 years to finish as a result of size of time cease movement takes as every second of the movie used 24 frames for the characters and the environmental actions in every scene.

For Life in Motion, I wished to mix these pursuits into issues I see in my on a regular basis life. From a time lapse of a pure topic all through the day, to one thing so simple as environmental motion within the metropolis streets, every quick animation section is made from 3-5 frames of pictures. The segments might be displayed all through the gallery so as as effectively.

Artist Bio:
Kaitlyn Hession is a photographer who has labored in many alternative fields of pictures, starting from portraiture and landscapes to photojournalism and movie. One of her most notable tasks, The Vacant Society, has been on show previously within the Binghamton Photo Gallery and within the third Floor Gallery of the Bundy Museum.

For Life in Motion, Kaitlyn might be combining two of her very long time pursuits: Film Photography and Stop Motion Animation. She will do that by making a sequence of animations utilizing movie exposures shot on a half body digicam. The pictures have been taken all through on a regular basis life from Hession’s perspective.

Kaitlyn Hession obtained her Associates of Science from Tompkins Cortland Community College, the place she majored in Photography. She additionally holds a Bachelor’s diploma in New Communication Media from the State University of New York at Cortland. During her time at these establishments, Hession’s work was displayed within the schools’ artwork galleries and in a neighborhood media outlet the place she interned as a journalist.