IMPOSSIBLE Camden Market Portraits

When was the last time you visited Camden Market?
I hadnt been there for years. Georgia and I met up with some other Polaroid shooters and spent a great day in this vibrant, busy area - full of market stalls, food stalls, old records, books, antiques - you name it its there. Plus you can wander anlong the canal.
I took the Polaroid SX70 Folding SLR and the SLR690 folding SLR with me and of course these wiers old cameras cause quite a stir. Its much easier to approach these people when you have an unusual talking point to shoot with rather than the common camera phone.
This latst film from THE IMPOSSIBLE PROJECT does not need shielding from the light and is a major development in the re engineering of instant film.

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Obsessed with the Stars and Stripes

We moved on from the heat of NYC to the heat of Cape Cod, but at least here we had a sea breeze and a lake to swim in...bliss Oakcrest Cove at Peters Pond is the place to stay.
Since getting a copy of Robert Frank's The Americans for Christmas the other year have become obsessed with Americana images and the US flag. What immediately hits you in the US is that these things are everywhere, they are very patriotic. The flags began creeping in to my images.

Impossible PX70Cool film
Polaroid SX70 Folding SLR

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3rd Avenue and 42nd Street

We'd been on the "Southern Loop" of the bus tour, still stifling hot in NYC and we just wanted to get off and walk in the shade. UN building was the next stop so off we hopped and walked down 42nd street towards Grand Central Station. At the junction with 3rd Avenue I snapped a picture of the receeding street and the yellow cab.
Impossible PX680 Test Film
Polaroid SX70 Folding SLR

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FlatIron, New York

Our Hotel was just a few blocks away from the iconic FlatIron building. A much, much photographed building, not, however by me!
An early morning stroll before the heat of the day built up with the Polaroid SX70 SLR

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Don't Walk - East Village NYC

Been a hot day in New York, temperatures over 30 degrees and the humidity was high. Like all true English people we went out in the midday sun.
By the late afternoon the sun was a bit cooler and it was time to bring out the SX70 as we walked through the East Village.
Went in some trendy shops, sussed out where the Impossible Project shop and exhibition space was and finally ended up in Chinatown where we had the most wonderful Vietnamese meal.

Polaroid SX70 SLR
Impossible PX680 Test Film

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Empire State from Madison Square Park

Returned from first ever trip to the USA with loads of instant images from the SX70 Folding SLR, 250 and 103 Land Cameras.
Our hote, the Broadway Plaza was a few blocks up from the flat iron building and about 15 blocks from Times Square. The Hotel is to be recommended in all regards.
Here I had wandered off by myself early in the morning, there were some street cleaners and joggers to keep my company as I made my first exposure using the new Impossible Test Film. This latest incarnation of the "Polaroid-Type" emulsion requires no shielding from light once it spits out of the camera. Finally, the Impossible team are getting close to the original Polaroid performance.
The colour is not optimised but the muted, almost sepia like tones I think work well.

Shot from Madison Square Park looking North up 5th Avenue.

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Two Impossible Images

Long live the Impossible Project...bringing instant photography once again to the masses and making millions of otherwise useless Polaroid Cameras usable again.
Two images here both shot with an SX70 folding SLR

Much like this one.

The Black and White pic uses Impossible PX100 Silver Shade film whilst the bottom one of the "friendly peppers" is made using Impossible PX70 Colour Shade. There is something about the colours, not quite natural, that gives these tiny jewel-like pictures a rather beautiful quality.

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Instant Flowers

If you have a Polaroid 600 typr camera or any SX70 cameras (folding or box plastic) then did you know film is still available? Not from Polaroid, they stopped making it in 2009. Within a year a group of Polaroid enthusiasts and some former Polaroid employees had bought what was left of the Polaroid Machinery and re-engineered Instant Film from scratch. Much of the material that Polaroid had used in their original formulations was not available or too expensive.
What has followed, over the last 2 years has been a remarkable colaboration beteen the Impossible Project and their Customer. Films have been developed, each new issue brings improvements in emulsion, colours, tones and spread - Customers have in effect been beta testers for Impossible.
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The Cat in the Hat

Julie had returned home from a successful World Book Day at our Village School, I had to grab the Polaroid SX70 and flash away.

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"Impossible" Fenland Project

A Christmas Eve Drive to Somersham to test out the Impossible project's PX70 Colour Shade film designed for the classic 1979's folding SX70 Camera. This film, like all these experimental films need to be protected from sunlight for the first few seconds after the image has been ejected from the camera. As each image dries out, over days, the colours shift and change.

These unique mindividual works or art need to be dried out thoroughly before the image becomes stable. I use a biscuit tin with several 100g packets of silica gel for a few weeks.

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Been getting into Instant Film. You may have thought instant film was dead and buried with Polaroid but no, "The Impossible Project" has reinvented instant film in colour and black and white.
Results are unpredictable but it's really exciting.

Bought a 600 instant camera and a Polaroid 420 Land Camera that takes pack film made by Fuji.

This image is made with Impossible 600 Silver Shade, the image is placed in hot water and eventually the emulsion floadts off! - carefully transfer it to a tray of cold water and lay it onto some watercolour paper.http://the-impossible-project.com/