FOR THE LOVE OF LIGHT IS SOMETHING I WAS PERSONALLY very proud to be a part of last year. Following on from the book, to be released very soon, are Polaroid Notes. Polaroid Notes is a set of 20 notecards of our lovely Polaroids from the FTLOL book. Chronicle Books are taking pre orders now and will be available from the website on Wednesday July 29.
I am pretty honoured to be a part of this next little venture and I cannot wait to see the notecards for myself.
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FABRICE MABILLOT USES POLAROIDS LIKE MOST PROFESSIONALS USE $30,000 EQUIPMENT. His Polaroid work is incredible and has made me realise that maybe I shouldn’t be treating my cameras like they are just vintage and from another time. I was astounded when first coming across his Polaroid work to discover that it was all actually shot with a Polaroid camera.
Mabillot recently was one of the photographers featured in The Polaroid Party, an exhibition of Polaroid work in Brooklyn, New York.
French born, Mabillot shoots fashion and pretty girls but also spends a lot of his time in Mali shooting with his trusty SX 70. According to The Polaroid Party, he has spent a lot of his career as a “sought after art director in Paris.”
The man is an incredible talent to think he has only been using an SX70 since 2007. I’ll let his work do the talking.
Check out the rest of his work here.
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Lomography has had a facelift and is offering a few discounts in their online store until the end of June.
Image by Takezzo
In celebration of what Lomo is all about, they have teamed up with Eastpak for a competition called I Love Life. There are three categories including Kiss or Resist, Life Less Ordinary and Dance the Funky Chicken. Prizes include brightly coloured backpacks from Eastpak.
Image by KeyMistress
The deadline is August 31. Competition details here.
If you don’t have an account with Lomography, it’s easy to sign up and start uploading.
I’m however currently having trouble finding my account in the migration.
Image by bear1973
All images taken from the Lomo site. Check it out for thousands more!
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Polaroid Lovers Try To Revive Instant Film: Read that baby on the NY Times! Yeah!
Go give Mr Kaps some money like I just did. If you really love Polaroid, you need to buy one of these t shirts to help keep the factory open.
VIVA LA POLAROID!
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VIA ALLEY IS MY NEW FAVOURITE STORE filled with Japanese goodness. I only discovered it on the weekend for the first time, even though another store had been open in Sydney since 2006. That store has since closed and a new teeny one has opened up in Sydney city, while tomorrow a large, flagship store will be opening in Surry Hills, Sydney.
Blackbird Fly TLR
What does this have to do with film photography? Via Alley stocks some of the cutest, silliest toy cameras around, mostly those made by Japanese company, Superheadz. They stock everything from hot pink Holgas to the newish Blackbird Fly TLR cameras, which come encased in what looks like a mini glass space ship. I have already got about 4 cameras picked out for my birthday next month.
You know you need a camera hidden in a book!
Via Alley also stocks cool t shirts, jewellery and gadgets of the cutesy kind. Get along to the opening and support this fabulous store!
And who could not want a disposable camera that looks like a panda?
VA Flagship
Shop 3, 285A Crown Street Surry Hills
Opening hours:
Mon-Wed, Fri 11am-7pm
Thu 11am-9pm
Sat 10am-6pm
Sun 10am-5pm
VA Select
Shop RG26A,
The Galeries Victoria
500 George Street
Sydney
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AUTUMN DE WILDE FEATURES IN A RECENT NICK CAVE DOCUMENTARY and watching snippets of it this afternoon piqued my interest in this awesome rock photographer again.
Jenny Wilson
Autumn De Wilde has shot covers for Rolling Stone, Spin and Nylon magazines and has photographed many rockstars and their album covers. Autumn was taught photography by her father and has released a book on Elliot Smith. She shoots mostly rock stars, like Beck, The White Stripes, Spoon and Jenny Wilson below, but has done some fabulous portraits of other celebrities such as the gorgeous Zooey Deschanel (although I guess Zooey is a rockstar now too).
I share with you some of my favourite portraits she has taken, but I urge you to check out her portfolio to view many, many more.
Isn’t this the most gorgeous shot of Zooey?
Zooey is who I wanna be when I grow up (um…when I am reincarnated as a younger woman, then?).
Although I wouldn’t mind being Karen O either…as my boyfriend proclaims often, “The coolest woman on earth” … and then he adds “after Amanda, of course”. YES, ME AND KAREN O, COOLEST WOMEN ON PLANET. <–Note sarcasm.
In a Boston Globe article with Autumn, she says talking of Karen O,
“She just wants to make sure the picture has feeling. The photos make you wish you were there to see what happened next. For me, that’s the whole point. Someone will see a photo and wish they were there.”
You can read that great article with Autumn at the Boston Globe.
Autumn De Wilde, I salute you!
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SOMETHING THAT I ALWAYS FIND FASCINATING IS looking into creative people’s homes, into their gorgeous designed rooms and creatively set up studios. Naturally, looking into photographers’ studio set ups and camera shelves would be a logical step for this site. In the future I will be asking you to email me photographs of your camera set ups and shelves, to show off how creatively you may use your cameras as a decoration in your home, how you display your photography and others’ photography on your walls.
I have already asked a few special people to share their camera shelves with us which will be coming later.
For now I will share mine with you …
My actual camera shelf that houses most of my cameras, lenses and accessories. My main cameras usually sit on this shelf: Canon 40D, Polaroid SX70, Nikon FM3A, Polaroid Spectra System, Polaroid Land Camera 340 and my Holga.
This is my desk which is home to the Yashica Mat 124 and as you can see here, my Nikon FM3A is there today too. Often there will be an assortment of cameras, polaroids and camera cords on this desk.
I usually do most of my playing on the Mac here, so photoshopping of photographs is done here also. As you can see I have a stack of polas sitting on the blue box and an inspiration board resting behind. I will admit, I totally just printed off some of my favourite photographs that I found online to add to it. I hope the artists don’t mind.
In saying that, I have purchased prints from some of the photographers whose work is there. I don’t really want to stick pins through their real work, so those are framed and on walls.
Print on left by Jenifer Altman, print in small frame in middle by me, print on right by Jen Causey.
Displaying your work is always tricky, especially when you take hundreds of Polaroids like I do. I have some in special Polaroid sized albums that I bought on ebay, many sit in piles on desks and tables, some are in frames and some are strung with little wooden pegs from Kikki K.
I hope you enjoyed this new little feature. We have some amazing photographers sharing their camera shelves coming up, so stay tuned!
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MOCKING BIRD is back over here for now.
If you are interested in more of a personal side of PC, over there shall it be.
However, on Paper Cameras, coming very soon is a new feature about photographers, their cameras and their workspaces. Some fabulous people have agreed to share their spaces with us and I am pretty excited about it.
Check out these awesome inspiring people.
The photograph is by Petrina Tinslay.
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1. Untitled, 2. because it’s spring, 3. and finally…, 4. On The Last Day (No. 11), 5. Strawberry Shortcake, 6. allium, 7. 09.03.05, 8. a glow in a weary world - ‘roidweek day 5, 9. because polaroid week is supposed to be fun
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THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT DELIVERED SOME MORE GOOD NEWS in Phase 11 of the project. A few updates to the website have emerged and this information came to us;
While the former Polaroid factory in Enschede, a small town located in the far east
of the Netherlands has quickly become our second home, we’ve managed to make a few
updates to our site, most notably a News Feed on the homepage. Our core team will be
posting regular updates, project challenges and anything worth sharing we come
accross in the world of instant photography.
To support the project, you can also now purchase these cool little t-shirts!
Get them for $28 here! You know the money is going to a good cause!
Bring on Day 3 of Roid Week (or Polaroid Week as the Canadian has requested I call it).
