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!

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand-out must-see images produced in 2023. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

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!

PolaCon BayArea 2023 was a thrilling four-day adventure packed with photowalks, vibrant parties, and a must-attend "Talks and Zine Swap" event. Unfazed by the rain, participants dove headfirst into exploring captivating locations while bonding over their shared passion of instant film, all while having a drink or two. Read our recap of this amazing event now!

Forget your preconceived notions of what "street" photography is or should be. Discover 20 international street photographers you need to know in 2023, curated by writer, photographer, and filmmaker, Jesse Freeman of Japan Camera Hunter, that challenges the Western ideas of street photography.

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand out must-see images produced in 2022. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

Since its advent, the art of photography has been a process of artistic experimentation. Hundreds of processes have been invented since its inception, including gum bichromate, platinum/palladium, and wet plate collodion. These alternative processes don’t just still exist; they are thriving in the digital age. Discover 20 emerging and established photographers who use these and countless other processes to create unique and engaging photographic prints in a specially curated list by Christina Z. Anderson!

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!

Though it was founded in in 1851, the wet plate collodion process has seen a resurgence over the last 20 years. Photographers from around the world are looking back and embracing the magic of this historic process. We are pleased to help you discover 29 established and emerging wet plate photographers that deserve recognition to show you exactly why this medium is as beautiful as it is important.

“O.N. Pruitt’s Possum Town,” presents a panorama of Southern life captured by Mississippi photographer Pruitt (1891-1967), and adds thoughtful essays about the lives and places pictured. Published by the University of North Carolina Press, this book is 272 pages of both history and stunning photography.

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!

Luca Tombolini’s series Vistas artistically explores the scientific idea of Space, Time, and their relativity by asking viewers to consider the perception of their via place in the universe via the combination of long and multiple exposure landscapes and cameraless microscapes made of color drops in solvents.

Since its advent, photography has been a boy's club, and women have stood out as rebels and heroes for infiltrating the clubhouse. It's now 2022, and we are pleased to help you discover 20 established and emerging women photographers that deserve recognition as we enter a new era of photographic diversity.

These images are the AF Team's curation of the most stand out must-see images produced in 2021. From career photographers to amateur hobbyists, these scenes and portraits made a huge impact this year!

Camille Valbusa’s self-portraits are critical identity studies that research artistic practices of healing from trauma. Read our latest interview where she dives into the motivations of her photography, talks about a current book project, and how shooting film plays into her art-making practice.

From Discrimination to Drag-queens, Erotica to Equality - LGBTQIA+ people have utilized the photographic arts to showcase and celebrate identities and social progress for decades. See our list of 25 photographers you need to know right now!

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!

Travel around the world through the eyes of 15 established and emerging documentary photographers and discover the insightful, moving, and beautiful intricacies and varieties of human experience they create with the medium of film photography.

Clément Marion’s series “Phoenix” features wet plate collodion photographs of severe burn victims that act as both hybrid artistic therapy for his models but also a commentary on important social constructs that influence their mental and emotional healing.

Suzanne Révy's latest series, "A Murmur in the Trees," imparts a sense of solitude that has been both endured and embraced through each season of this past year during the pandemic. These triptychs lure you in with their subtle details and shifting light.