Polaroid Workshop, by Marco / JG35

Another workshop?!

Yes, indeed. And totally worth it. It was in Vienna again, though on a different location. It was held by Marco (again) / JG35. We used the new developed films from The-Impossible-Project, again. It was awesome, again.

Little changes? Well, first and foremost, this time this article is written in english. (You should have noticed by now) Also, we sized down from 8×10″ to our old, beloved and known SX-70 and Polaroid 600* series. And well prepared we started into the workshop.

films from the-impossible-project
films from the-impossible-project

I have to admit that Macro has a gift to communicate his knowledge and you feel that he has fun in what he is doing. From the first moment you get well dragged along and fall in line with his enthusiasm.

just chillin
just chillin

 

getting situated
getting situated
smalltalk about different polaroids
smalltalk about different polaroids

 

eager to start
eager to start

For all who reached this article, I will not go into depth about polaroid cameras as you will most likely already know more about them than I do. Furthermore, I think Marco got it all covered.

So, what is left before we can go into the process of lift-offs and do cool stuff?

Oh, right, actually taking some pictures!

first contact
first contact
It's always in the details
It’s always in the details

After some time we were through with all the films and evaluated the outcome.

the shots
the shots

Finally we were itching to test the methods shown by Marco.

As hard as it looked some months ago with the 8×10″ film. I have to admit that it actually is not that hard. Given that we had someone to show us the process first and keep a steady eye on use during our experiments.

cut the film open
cut the film open
cut off borders
cut off borders

 

rinse the film before lift-off
rinse the film before lift-off

 

be careful
be careful
float the image onto the paper
float the image onto the paper

 

Looks easy, is easy … after you have done it a couple of times! It is doable and for sure it is a heck of fun! Try it, grab your Polaroid, get some film, cut it open and rinse it in warm water, then float it onto paper/glas/wood/… really … anything, you name it, you try it!

Thanks to

Marco for making this happen and guiding us through,

Brick-5 for a wonderful location for this workshop and for our exhibition,

The-Impossible-Project for reinvented the polaroid films and supplying us with them,

and well, us, the JG35 for making this workshop.

 

More photos us having fun and from the final results are shown here: