Jeroen Mylle

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More Polaroids!

 Sofie Olejnik

 Lisa Wiseman

If you haven't noticed from several of my posts, I've been obsessing over polaroids lately and I'm still trying to figure out exactly why. Lisa Wiseman's thoughts on the "new polaroid" helped me understand a bit better. I found this artist and information on one of my favorite and most visited blogs The Jealous Curator. I've already linked the blog name to her site and encourage you to visit, I find artists that either originate or have overlap with the ones she features. I'm going to copy paste below her post, but to view the images in her post on Lisa Wiseman just search her name in Jealous Curator's search box on the top right.
 The post is as follows:

"Lovely old polaroids, right? No. They are, in fact, “the evolution of polaroid”. San Francisco based photographer Lisa Wiseman used her iPhone to capture all of these vintage-not-really-vintage-at-all images… and I love them! So much! I’ll let Lisa explain:

Because the iPhone has become a ubiquitous accessory, on-the-go picture taking is now the norm. People use their iPhones to take spontaneous photos in the same carefree way that cheap polaroid film has been used inthe past. In concept and ideology the iPhone mimics polaroid, however it pushes the aesthetic forward by utilizing a non-film (but technologically average) medium. Just like traditional polaroids had a specific size and unique look, iPhone photos, both raw and processed with iPhone apps, are unmistakable because the technology limits them to a fixed size and resolution and imbues them with a unique chromatic aberration that says iPhone and nothing else. I love the new polaroid.

Me too Lisa, me too."

 Serrah Russell

I couldn't really tell you why, but there's something amazing in the reductive qualities of polaroids.  I posted some very different work of Serrah Russell's before, collaged sections framed by color planes (if you haven't seen them, use the word cloud to the right to go look). This set of her work handles imagery in a different way; the way she is documenting these moments, almost as if by glance, inspires me to do something similar and just for me. I'm thinking: carry my 35mm Holga everywhere and shoot anything that's interesting to me. I think the images will become something more with time.