Collection: Kaitlin Mosley

Bio

Kaitlin Suzann Mosley was born in 1983. She grew up in Jackson, New Jersey along the pine barrens. She is 1/16th Lenni Lenape and likes to visit the tree where her childhood dogs are buried. In 2001 she attended the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania where she earned a BFA in Photography. Kaitlin has worked as a Fine Art digital Printmaker, Product Photographer, and currently works for Penn School of Design.

Statement

The film I shoot with is chemically expired but still retains a substantial presence, even as it loses its life. There is a physicality to film in the way the colors fade and morph, and that physical nature becomes synonymous with the memories it holds. With digital cameras as the primary way to capture images there is a certain quality of the photographic image that is lost as shooting film moves closer to extinction. In truth every photographic moment is a passing one, unstable dyes are always in a state of change, but there is a bond to the subjects they capture. Both color negative and transparency film hold unique characteristics even when past their date. To expire can also mean to lose a breath, to exhale. When I photograph there is a moment of stillness and concentration as if my eye could hold the moment in its place. I think every photographer experiences that moment when you are ready to release the shutter and you breathe out slightly to avoid camera movement. In this respect, the act of photographing itself becomes a kind of expiration. I believe there is an atmosphere in these photographs that relates back to the process and the film. The physicality of the expired film and the act of photographing merge to create images that call to mind both absence and presence.