Thirteen Years Ago

Pub Window  [Polaroid transfer from 35mm slide]
Clifden, Ireland - Summer 1994
(click in the image to see it larger)

My, my...eleven days since the last update here. That's what happens when two major deadlines collide all at once. Thankfully, there is a glimmer of light at the end of the tunnel.

In the course of looking for images for the book project that is finally nearing completion, I cam across this one, taken back in 1994 on a family trip to Ireland. The original was photographed on 35mm slide film and at some point later...perhaps even a few years later, the Polaroid transfer was made.

I've always liked this photo. The simplicity of it lends itself to the transfer process. And I really like the look of Polaroid transfers, and I used to do quite a lot of them. But after a while I was not comfortable with all the waste that was generated in the process. So much of the Polaroid product, everything, actually, ended up in the trash. And apart from the cardboard box and maybe the metal film case, nothing could be recycled. And much of what did get thrown out was gooey and toxic. This bothered me more and more until I finally stopped making them.

Comments

[John Kelleher]

Hi... I just came across your photographic work while trawling the web for a couple of free images for a film proposal I'm writing (I did not steal any of yours!) . I wanted to say that I think they are absolutly marvellous. The air of magic and mystery embedded in realiity which you capture - or lure to the surface of things - is just terrific. All the best to you.
John Kelleher
Film maker
London

[ugg outlet]

just came across your photographic work while trawling the web for a couple of free images for a film proposal I'm writing (I did not steal any of yours!) . I wanted to say that I think they are absolutly marvellous. The air of magic and mystery embedded in realiity which you capture - or lure to the surface of things - is just terrific. All the best to you.