Art of Polaroid Transfers

The story goes something like this: Back in the 60s an unnamed, sloppy technician was testing a new peel-apart color film at Polaroid. At the end of a long yet productive shift, or so I’d like to think, being sloppy and a little tired, our technician accidentally left the “negative” side from one of the films face down on his desk and called it a day. The next morning, when he returned to his station, he found the dried “negative”, peeled it off his desk and discovered on his desktop the first Polaroid Transfer ever made.

Whether this story is true or not, since the 1960s many photographers and artists have been drawn to this technique as a form of expression. I am just one of many who in this digital age finds comfort in the analogue Polaroid Transfer process and the unique and antiquated images that it produces.