Polaroid Week Spring 2019: Our Top 20 Favorites!

Polaroid Week

Apr 27

Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that is held on Flickr that allows lovers of the medium to get together and share their newly created instant works. This year’s Spring Polaroid Week started on Sunday March 21st and lasted until Friday March 26th and had 222 members submit a total of 1,200+ photographs! We watched the action unfold and have chosen 20 of our absolute favorites! These are just our picks and there are still thousands of amazing instant photographs to go see on the Flickr Group Pool! So go check it out!

A Short description from Roid Week’s Group Pool:

“We started POLAROID WEEK in 2006 to celebrate instant film. We also started it as a project – to see what new and interesting things we could do with instant film; and to challenge ourselves to produce some really great work.”

"Behind the Hill" by Maija Karisma

"Untitled’ by Andy Jenkins

"Isolated Village" by Bastian Kalous

"Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco” by Peter Knight

"N. on Polaroid 55 ” by Denis Peaudeau

"Forgotten House” by Lisa Toboz

"Embroidered Self” by Urizen Freaza

"Life as a Hipster” by Anika Neese

"O Pegasus” by Toby Hancock

"Untitled” by Mari-Ann Curtis

"Tenaya Lake" by Laura Alice Watt

"Shadow Trees in a Concrete World" by Hilary Clarke

“Hamilton, MT." by Sol Exposure

"Puget Sound Sunset" by Lance Trussel

"The Fate of Notre Dame 1 ” by Anika Neese

"Untitled” by Lukas Brinkmann

"Lofoten” by Alex Conu

"Untitled" by Joann Edmonds

"Untitled” by Lukas Brinkmann

"One Step Further and the Wilderness Begins..." by Ina Echternach

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Behlen is a photography enthusiast from Fresno, CA. He works in finance and spends his free time shooting instant film and backpacking in the California wilderness, usually a combination of the two. He is the founder of Analog Forever Magazine. Connect with Michael Behlen on his Website and on Instagram!

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Michael Behlen

Michael Behlen is a photography enthusiast from Fresno, CA. He works in finance and spends his free time shooting instant film and seeing live music, usually a combination of the two. He has self- published two Polaroid photobooks--“Searching for Stillness, Vol. 1” and “I Was a Pioneer,” literally a boxed set of his instant film work. He exhibited a variety of his photos at Raizana Teas, a Fresno tea room and health food store; his work there, “Polaroid Prints of Landscapes and Strangers,” was up for viewing during the months of June and July, 2014. He has been published, been interviewed, and been reviewed in a quantity of magazines, from” F-Stop” and “ToneLit” to “The Film Shooter’s Collective.” He loves the magic sensuality of instant film: its saturated, surreal colors; the unpredictability of the medium; it’s addictive qualities as you watch it develop. Behlen is the founder and Publisher of “Pryme Magazine.” You can see his work here: www.dontshakeitlikeapolaroid.com