The Project

Polaroid Portrait project

By Julien Bayle
23 August 2007

The Polaroid Portrait Project

This project is all about our identities.

What is inside of us and what is outside of us.

With this series of Polaroid portraits I am trying to convey this internal-external duality with the instantaneous Polaroid Sx70.

All are diptychs.

My plan is to enlarge these Polaroids, and then exhibit them as part of a much larger project for which I will only use traditional film cameras like the Hassleblad 500cm or the Pentacon 6.

I prefer using the square format for this project because it involves a more central focus for the eye. This is something that I consider essential for the portrait project.

For now, I can no longer consider shooting portraiture with 24x36 or any of the other rectangular formats.

I hope you will like it and email me about with your thoughts.

Julien

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