Polaroid and Instant photography: Developing a Project

This intensive workshop, in collaboration with The Whitechapel Gallery, is designed for artists working with instant cameras, and developing a project about people and urban spaces. We will focus on a range of Polaroid and Instax cameras, and briefly explore the history of the medium. Students will be introduced to both ‘integral’ Polaroid and Instax systems, along with a demonstration of a Polaroid peel-apart camera, and practice photographing in the Brick Lane area in order to develop confidence around framing, exposure and the possibilities of this important analogue photographic technology. Students will have access to Fuji Instax cameras for their group assignments.

About the tutor

Paul Halliday is an artist, interdisciplinary urbanist and educator who originally trained in photojournalism and fine art film at the London College of Communications and Central St Martins (UAL), social anthropology at Goldsmiths, art history and archaeology, at the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. He is the former founding convenor of the international MA Photography & Urban Cultures, ran the third year of the BA Photomedia at Croydon Art School, worked as the media advisor for the British Refugee Council, and previously worked for Channel 4 TV as a documentary film director. He has also worked as an architectural photographer, and consultant in marketing and branding. Paul has recently completed a long-term project working with a Polaroid camera.

To see examples of his work, please visit his website at: www.paulhalliday.com

For further information, please contact: info@urbananalogue.com