Wednesday, August 12, 2020

stage 4

I'm obsessed with slow photography, the kind that involves film and patience. Something that is perfect to practice in this current stage 4 lockdown. 

new work - iso 2020, Somers Beach - emulsion lift on Ilford matt archive paper xx⠀

This is actually a picture of a picture, well a picture of a picture of a polaroid lift - still with me? Polaroid lift? It's the time consuming, often heartbreaking, far from cost-effective yet totally addictive process where you pull apart an old school polaroid photo to carefully extract the emulsion and then give your image new life and texture. The process is crazy frustrating and polaroid film is notoriously fickle but it's incredibly rewarding when the magic happens. ⠀

Prints of this addition will be limited to the small collectors print size - all of the details are in the print store.

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