NSWF | Featured Photographer: Chad Coombs - “Polaroid Portraits”
Chad Coombs’ "Portraits" series is an audacious foray into the unsettling terrain where identity, faith, and societal norms collide in his manipulated Polaroid collage series.
Polaroid Week - Spring 2024: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top selections from this season now!
Featured Photographer: Laetitia Heisler – “Forest is a Temple”
Using instant-film double exposures, Germany-based photographer Laetitia Heisler takes viewers on a healing journey through the woods, camera in tow, sharing how she sees life as “a continuous transformation” in her series, Forest is a Temple. “Everyone and everything are intertwined.”
Featured Photographers: Lenny Gerard - "Day vs. Night Juxtaposition”
Enter the realm of Lenny Gerard, a visionary artist who juxtaposes day and night shots of architectural marvels in an arresting critique of capitalism. Gerard's work, as captivating as it is contemplative, challenges the viewer to consider the implications of a system that values work over life, and productivity over creativity.
Featured Photographers: Sileō - "System Error"
System Error, a thought-provoking photo series by Italian artists Silvia Pedrina and Leonardo Brentan, a.k.a Sileō, challenges perceptions of our growing relationship with technology. Combining traditional photography with digital techniques, the series offers a fascinating exploration of the intersection between the physical and digital realms.
Polaroid Week - Spring 2023: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top selections from this season now!
NSFW | Featured Photographer: Rachel Portesi - “Hair Portraits"
Explore the nuanced transitions of female identity through the unique and captivating portraits created by photographic artist, Rachel Portesi. From Polaroids and tintypes, discover the amazing images that embody motherhood, aging, and self through this ongoing exploration of femininity and the physical world.
Polaroid Week - Fall 2022: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top selections from this season now!
Community Spotlight: Shitty Camera Challenge: Instant Regret
In the latest iteration of the Shitty Camera Challenge, photographers from around the world tackle the beast that is instant photography. From Instax to emulsion lifts to thermal prints, anything and everything goes when you’re trying to overcome your "Instant Regret."
Community Spotlight: The 12:12 Project
The 12:12 Project is an international collective of artists using instant film to explore monthly themes. Featuring 42 artists who have contributed to the 12:12 project since 2013, a new exhibition up now showcases the astounding creativity of these photographers and demonstrates the versatility and artistic potential of instant film.
Polaroid Week - Spring 2022: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top selections from this season now!
Featured Photographer: Jamie Swick - “Instant Transcendence”
Jamie Swick’s environmental portraits of the Pacific Northwest produce a distinct stillness that is undeniable. Her picturesque landscapes suggest a new era of environmentalism that isn’t fought by tying yourself to a tree, but by walking among them.
Polaroid Week - Fall 2021: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top selections from this season now!
Featured Photographer: John F. Cooper's "Organic Portraits"
John F. Cooper’s series Organic Portraits is a timeless and fundamentally beautiful collection of portraits that were created to raise awareness for—and help preserve—the world's rainforests.
Polaroid Week - Spring 2021: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top 20 selections from this season now!
Interview: Mikael Kennedy - "Passport to Trespass"
Mikael Kennedy’s critically acclaimed nine-part zine series Passport to Trespass is a generation-defining photographic journey of one man’s search for the true meaning of “Home."
Interview: Polly Chandler - You Build It Up, You Wreck It Down
Polly Chandler is a 21st-century medium, channeling the deep gravelly voice of singer-songwriter Tom Waits into surreal one-image narratives that Christopher Nolan would be jealous of.
Featured Photographer: Sheri Lynn Behr's Series "Beyond Recognition"
Sheri Lynn Behr's Series "Beyond Recognition" asks important questions about societies’ relationship with technology. Her manipulated Polaroids urge us to ponder what is actually "real" in the digital world.
Polaroid Week Fall 2020: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a bi-annual celebration of instant film that allows lovers of the medium to share their newly created instant works across the internet! See our top 20 selections from this season now!
Featured Photographer: J.K. Lavin's Series “Crisis of Experience”
Crisis of Experience is the result of an eight-year project by J.K. Lavin exploring themes of self-reflection and female identity using the mechanics of seriality from behind a mirror with a Polaroid SX-70.