Featured Photographer: Laura Barth’s Emulsion Lift Alchemy
Laura Barth’s photographic practice is an urgent response to the pressures of twenty-first-century womanhood and motherhood—an alchemical process that merges art and science. Her foundational series, “Mythos and Manna,” transforms digital memories and personal upheaval into layered, mythic images through Polaroid emulsion lifts and handwork, blurring the boundaries between memory, artifact, and healing.
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.
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.
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.
Feature: Jim Steg’s Inspired Journey
Jim Steg (1922-2001) was an inventive artist and esteemed educator who lived in New Orleans. A celebrated printmaker, he became interested in photography late in his career. Barbara Hitchcock, who served as Curator of The Polaroid Collection, writes about his explorations with the SX-70 and shares rarely seen instant photography explorations from the artist.
Featured Photographer: Felicita Russo - "Imaginary Landscape"
Italian photographer Felicita Russo’s instant film based creations of extraterrestrial worlds and breathtaking future landscapes bridge the gap between traditional painting, contemporary art, and science fiction. Through her work, she pushes the boundaries of contemporary light painting to new frontiers.
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.
Valley of the Sun: The Mystical, Magical Self-Portraits of Clare Marie Bailey
Inspired by 1960s B movies and counterculture, the works of Ellen Rogers, and the surreal landscape of the seaside Welsh town where she lives and works, Clare Marie Bailey’s Polaroid self-portraits blur the lines between fantasy and reality.
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.
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.
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.
Featured Photographer: Mads Madison's Global Warming Series
Mads Madison’s Global Warming Series consists of experiments done on wasted film with various chemicals that leave the viewer to absorb a post-apocalyptic spectacle filled with orange atmospheric flames,
Featured Photographer: Bastian Kalous’s Expired Polaroids of an Eternal Land
Photographer Bastian Kalous uses expired instant film to explore and experience stunning mountain peaks, enchanting vistas, and cold frozen forests that seem more like our own memories than his photographs.
Featured Photographer: Julia Beyer - Our World In Flames
Julia Beyer’s expired Polaroid Time- Zero shots of Iceland transform the pristine untouched wilderness around her into psychedelic fantasies that make us question what we are doing to the world.