387 polaroids (Fuji Instax Mini), each photograph is 54 x 86mm (image size 46 x 62mm)
Beginning on the close of the final day of 2016, a polaroid was taken every day for the year ahead. Occasionally two might be taken, but they weren't ever re-taken or staged. Only one is taken most days. These are honest moments, reflections of the everyday. They (originally and still) were never being taken with the intention of being exhibited; they are my life, unedited. Mid way through the process these were exhibited at The Uralla Print Gallery in a group exhibition. Their physical form exists as a series of twelve small books I bound by hand, a single photo on a single page. Much like the real thing you hold it close, squinting, to make its detail out - much the reason you can't click to enlarge in a digital sense. Daily serve was a choice to commit and record a transience moment otherwise lost, a sixtieth of a second of each day as the seasons pass. Drawing on the materiality of the medium is in large the catalyst for this process. Being able to handhold the experience of each image appearing in the light before being left with a physical object, creates a connection, tangibility and authenticity that is unique to an analogue methodology.