“Colin Jarvie’s photographs
are a story infused with a particular melancholy and an intense
curiosity. They are the products of a picaresque yet oddly determined
journey through the cityscape. They have a blurred fragility;
identify and stabilize memories. They are interior and exterior
landscapes, fragments of the everyday, reminders of our transience.”
The SX-70 Polaroid camera is a beautifully designed
object from the 70’s.
Colin took up this camera in the mid 90’s as a distraction
from ‘’real’ photography, but soon became entranced
by the unique results he could achieve with this unconventional
set up.
There is now an archive of around 3,000 images in this ongoing series.
The polaroids are then scanned at high resolutions and with a minimum
of digital interference reproduced using the lightjet photographic
printing process.
It is important that the integrity of the original is maintained
as far as colour reproduction and surface detail, in many cases
you may see the cracks that occur naturally in the emulsion of the
Polaroid print.
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