Sidewalk Shadows
I like to hunt shadows –
I seek them out on long walks through neighborhoods and city streets, armed with a Polaroid SX-70. When I encounter a particularly
exceptional collaboration between the sun and the intervening surroundings in my path I stop, and using individual sections of the sidewalk as a framing device, aim and shoot.
Appropriately, I use Impossible Project film, the unstable and unpredictable successor to Polaroid, in my attempts to capture the immaterial. The resulting images contribute to the fabled history of fixing shadows– a pursuit that is both futile and enchanting.
I seek them out on long walks through neighborhoods and city streets, armed with a Polaroid SX-70. When I encounter a particularly
exceptional collaboration between the sun and the intervening surroundings in my path I stop, and using individual sections of the sidewalk as a framing device, aim and shoot.
Appropriately, I use Impossible Project film, the unstable and unpredictable successor to Polaroid, in my attempts to capture the immaterial. The resulting images contribute to the fabled history of fixing shadows– a pursuit that is both futile and enchanting.
