Lockdown Portraits

11/08/2022

kristynahessphotography • Original Audio

14/12/2020

It’s out!!!
At the start of Lockdown 1.0 I picked up my camera and started documenting our lives in Inner West.
I also interviewed all my beautiful Lockdown Portraits families.
Since then there was a mention on Channel 9, couple of interviews...but I wanted to give this project back to the community. Talking exhibition bringing us all to a conclusion at the end of it.
Now fastforward to December 2020, we had far more Locdown stories to tell we ever wished for...
National Museum of communication Melbourne just launched a virtual exhibition:
Building Virtual Communities.
Have a scroll and find 8 Lockdown Portraits
Yay 🤩💓
They will also be archived!
That makes me so happy, because creating and saving a time capsule was exactly what I wished for.
Now next step is a real street poster exhibition, I would love an outdoor cement wall or fence in our Inner West. Anybody from the Maribyrnong Council here? I wish for nothing more than a Lockdown Portraits street talking exhibition. To give back to this anazing community 💖
Now have a cuppa, there are a few more beautiful exhibits in here. Take your time and enjoy:

Building virtual communities Our working lives, and social lives, have moved online during COVID-19. Instant messaging apps, video-conferencing services and social media platforms – from Whatsapp to Slack, HouseParty and TikTok – have become part of our lives like never before, with social-dis....

25/11/2020

Hello my beautiful families,
time to get some amazing family photos and finish 2020 with a smile 💓
This is the latest and only date you can book in and still get your photos ready for Xmas.
Location will be confirmed next week, most likely the very far part of Altona Beach.
Booking link here:
https://KristynaHessPhotography.as.me/XmasMini

27/10/2020

https://youtu.be/ilQqNsNTb1E

Why my head is split in half about COVID

26/10/2020

Masks on but Happy
😎

Kingsville, Victoria, Australia

21/10/2020

Lockdown Puppy

Kingsville, Victoria, Australia

10/10/2020

1 dream at a time, still cannot believe it, kids actually going back to school after 12 weeks!

01/10/2020

My children,
my little sunshines,
my biggest teachers
and challengers.
What would I do without you
🥰

Kingsville, Victoria, Australia

26/09/2020

Ah we are totally not holding our breath to be able to live again.

14/09/2020

Stage 4 homeschooling couldn’t get easier.

07/09/2020

Little girls twirling with flowers...
My heart melts every time.
😍

Yarraville, Victoria, Australia

06/09/2020

Happy Fathers Day
To my beautiful husband,
and all the Dads and Grandads.
We love you.
Even if it doesn't always look like it.
💓