Winter passes....

... eventually, and in case anyone is missing it already, here is a selection of Polaroids taken during this long, long winter season..... [click here to view]

Flipboard Magazine Update

The magazine People in Polaroids which I created for the flipboard app a while ago has in the course of a week garnered over 1700 subscribers....

Here is the link again:http://flip.it/7KL2s. The magazine is viewable using flipboard for iOS and for Android.

Instant Travelog Blog

Impossible Project, the manufacturer of the new Polaroid films, published this short feature of mine on their 'Instant Travelog' blog, about my trip to India back in January, together with a selection of the Polaroids I shot there.[Click here to view]

Flipboard Magazine: People in Polaroids

If you are using the (great) Flipboard app on iOS or Android devices, you have noticed the app's new feature for creating and subscribing to so-called magazines, i.e. collections of links from the web that Flipboard users can create and share (if they wish), and which are presented in classy Flipboard style. I have started a public magazine myself which I call "People in Polaroids". It basically features people photography done with Polaroid or other instant cameras, and articles covering this type of photography. Here is the link:http://flip.it/7KL2s.

The cover photo is by Heitor Magno.

New Polaroid Set: Abandoned Homes

A few weeks ago I came across a vast area of houses being demolished to make way for a new, controversial strip of highway to be built across Berlin. The area was fenced off but a gate was left open so I slipped in and shot a couple of films of Polaroids, a selection of which I now uploaded.

In case you're wondering at the nature of these houses, they are really 'city cottages'. They are part of a typical phenomena in German cities: stretches of land set aside for gardening where city people can rent plots to set up a cottage and tend a garden. These places tend to be miniature worlds - somewhat akin to trailer parks and year-round camping sites, where people set up for themselves their own little homes away from home, often fancifully decorated in ways that people probably would not deck out their main places of living. This is not necessarily in the best of taste - there can be found a fair abundance of garden goblins and other similar pseudo-rural kitsch used in obvious attempts to create make-believe suburban utopias in the heart of the cities. 

In this particular area the cottages are now being demolished, the buildings are empty and only the shells remain (for now). These shells have become the canvases for urban artists to leave their mark and create imaginative, if temporary, pieces of art. This I find one of those phenomena typical of urban life: creation amidst destruction.

I used a Polaroid SX-70 Sonar camera for the shoot, with Impossible Project PX 70 and PX 680 CP films.

[Click here to view]

People Section Updated

I have updated the whole Peoples section, bringing the layout in line with the other sections and hopefully making navigation easier.
At the same time, I updated a few sets, notably 

- Up Close & Personal (2010-2013)
- Passengers
- Faces of India

and added a new one, People in Polaroids

Enjoy...

8 Exposures....

Impossible Project, the company that produces the new Polaroid instant film, has published an interview with me on their web site. Here is the link: http://blog.the-impossible-project.com/8-exposureswith-ghee-dondlinger

With many thanks again to the great Impossible Project team, not just for making the films (of course) but also for promoting the instant film community in such an active and supporting way.