Kaitlyn Yates is an analog photographic artist and practicing archivist based in New York City. Born in California's San Joaquin Valley, she was raised on both the West and East Coast. She relocated to New York City in 2012, where she earned her Bachelors of Arts at CUNY Hunter College. She is currently pursuing an MLIS with a specialization in Archives, and was recently granted a archival research fellowship at the Easton Foundation in New York City.
Kaitlyn works with all analog processes including silver gelatin prints, polaroid emulsions, and cyanotypes. Her work catalogs slivers of the ordinary- namely moments in between, those that reflect joy, loss, boredom and contentment. In her work, she seeks to define the meaning or emotive nature of an experience for those living within it, interconnectivity, and the intimacy a space can possess based on who has existed within it. She is largely inspired by the idea of the fugacious nature of existence, as well as her own intimate experience with grief and loss. Her most recent series 'PLACES I'VE BEEN WITH MY FATHER' was featured in Pearl Press' Elegy Issue. She lives in Queens, NY.