Polaroid Week - Spring 2024: Our Top 20 Favorites!
Polaroid Week is a biannual celebration of instant film that is held on Flickr, Instagram, and Facebook that allows lovers of the medium to get together and share their newly created instant works. This year’s Spring Polaroid Week ran from Sunday, April 21 to Friday, April 26, and after watching the action unfold, we have chosen 20 of our favorites from thousands of amazing instant photographs on Flickr, Instagram, and Facebook (please check them out, too, for more inspiration!).
From the Roid Week’s Group Pool on Flickr: “We started Polaroid Week in 2006 to celebrate instant film. We also started it as a project – to see what new and interesting things we could do with instant film, and to challenge ourselves to produce some really great work.”
OUR TOP PICKS!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Lisa Toboz is a self-taught, Pittsburgh-based artist with a background in writing and literature. Her work explores self-portraiture and creativity as a form of healing using various Polaroid cameras and film. She is inspired by vernacular photography, Victorian spirit photography, and ‘70s supernatural cinematography, as well as reading fiction. Her recent photo books include Dwell (Polyseme, 2020) and The Long Way Home (Static Age UK, 2018). Her Polaroid photography can be found in various publications including Shots Magazine, as a featured artist in She Shoots Film: Self Portraits, and Polaroid Now (Chronicle Books, 2021). A copy editor by trade, she has exhibited internationally and is represented by photographer Stefanie Schneider’s Instantdreams Gallery (Palm Springs, CA).
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