Polaroid Manipulations

These manipulations were made using Polaroid SX-70 film, the primary beauty of which was the fact that it stayed soft and maleable for a significant amount of time after exposure. During that time, the emerging image could be manipulated with an array of tools such as burnishers, toothpicks, crochet hooks, bone folders and fingernails. A key component of SX-70 film is no longer available, and Polaroid stopped making it in 2006. Polaroid announced it would disappear from the photographic scene altogether in 2008, so these images are not only one-of-a-kind, they're now part of a photographic legacy that cannot be recreated.

Note: many people who made Polaroid manipulations scanned the raw images into computers and further manipulated them digitally. This is not the case with me. All my manipulations were performed manually, and the images have not been digitally enhanced or altered in any way.