tim + matt bowditch

tim bowditch's ongoing collaboration with his brother matt who is currently serving with the royal marines in afghanistan. as tim explains: "he is taking instant photographs of his time out there. posting them back and allowing me to put selections together." see more of tim's work here and thanks to wasma for the link.

[all tim + matt bowditch. from the series polaroids.]

ming wong

ming wong's 'filem-filem-filem' project. "developed out of the artist's research into the pioneering multi-cultural film industry in pre-independence singapore. before cinemas existed in this part of the world, enterprising chinese businessmen would drive from one town to the next, testing their market by setting up temporary cinemas in tents in open fields, public halls or malay opera houses. if response was good, they would buy the hall or the plot of land and build a cinema...today, in the age of the 'multiplex', many of these stand-alone cinemas have either been demolished, or given a new lease of life as a church, supermarket, furniture store, department store, nightclub, restaurant, hotel, indoor swimming pool, ice-skating rink, snooker hall, 'entertainment centre', etc...the pictures of the cinemas in the exhibition are polaroids taken with a manual medium format camera...the polaroid was also developed around the same time as many of these cinemas, so the medium and subject are about the same age and both are becoming obsolete." see more here.

[all ming wong. from the series filem-filem-filem. 2008.]

haris epaminonda

polaroids of printed images from the insides of obscure and antiquated books and magazines by haris epaminonda. see more here.

[all haris epaminonda. 2009. top to bottom: untitled #235. untitled #126. tntitled #251.]

sally verrall

work by sally verrall. see more here.

[all sally verrall. from the series architectureweek (polaroids and masking tape). 2006.]

carlo van de roer

work by carlo van de roer. "these portraits are made with a polaroid aura camera developed in the 1970s by an american scientist in an attempt to record what a psychic might see." see more here.

[all carlo van de roer. from the series the aura portrait machine.]

horst ademeit

horst ademeit's obsessive and fascinating project to record traces of radiation damage. "ademeit devoted almost twenty years of his life to the photographic documentation of 'cold rays'...as well as newspapers and food, these daily pictures show measuring devices such as a thermometer, light meter, compass, and clock. Each photograph is numbered and annotated by hand: these notes comprise ademeit's measurements, for which, alongside objective methods, he developed a subjective one that involved measuring the width of a crack in a wooden table; but he also described the atmosphere of his surroundings, smells, sounds, and objects not visible in the pictures." see more here.

[all horst ademeit. from the series tagesbilder. 1989-2007.]

john sisley

work by john sisley. see more here.

[all john sisley. top to bottom: 2 minutes of sand from a broken hourglass with developing polaroid. 2009. untitled. untitled.]

sally verrall

work by sally verrall. see more here.

[all sally verrall. top to bottom: bishopsgate. 2007. the physical image (installation shots). 2007. architectureweek. 2006.]

tate foley

work by tate foley. see more here.

[all tate foley. from the series evolution is convenient.]

archive • jamie livingston

jamie livingston took a polaroid every day for almost two decades until he passed away on his 41st birthday. it's pretty compelling to look at that many pictures of one person's life over so much time. see them here and read more here.

[all from jamie livingston's polaroids. thanks to both becky and chris for the link.]

archive is a weekly column by asha schechter that appears each wednesday on i heart photograph.

sally verrall

some really great work from british photographer sally verrall. you can see more of her work here. and a huge thanks to kathrin for passing along this link.

[all sally verrall. top to bottom: warp triptych. 2007. swell diptych. 2007. untitled (installation shot - the physical image). 2006.]

derek vincent

some pretty polaroids by derek vincent. you can take a peek at more of his work here. and a big thanks to tomé duarte for this link.

[both derek vincent. from the series instants.]

markus kison

german graphic designer markus kison turns his polaroids into 3d-models. you can see more of markus' projects here. and a big thanks to lexi for passing along this link.

[all markus kison. from the series alex-ecke-caféte. 2005.]

shaun kessler

such amazing polaroids by artist shaun kessler. you can see more of shaun's work here.

[all shaun kessler. untitled. 2006.]

grant hamilton

grant hamilton has a very nice collection of minimal polaroids he's shot. you can take a peek at more of grant's stuff here.

[all grant hamilton. top to bottom: purple white. aquamarine. peppermint.]

stripper polaroids

these are from an interesting flickr set which karin told me about. they are polaroid portraits of women who showed up to audition for stripping jobs at a southern california club in the late '60s through the early '70s. you can take a peek at the entire collection of photos here.

[photographer unknown. top to bottom: toni. january moon. duan.]

ellen harvey

a nice series of paintings about photography by ellen harvey called invisible self-portraits. each painting is based on a polaroid taken by the artist of herself in a mirror. you can take a peek at more of these here.

[all ellen harvey. from the series invisible self-portraits. 2006.]

sean dack

i'm really into the aesthetic of these polaroid works by sean dack. you can see more of his work here.

[all sean dack. polaroid works. 2006. top: hotel (north korea). bottom right: sound system. bottom left: winter trees.]