'' Memory Imprints ''

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Impossible/Polaroid transfers with mixed materials on glass

by Aristoteles Kara

In a shop with analog cameras in Madrid found the Polaroid SX, a used type of polaroid land camera with sonar that gives me the option of automatic or non-focus and the option to use flash. I started testing photographing moments from home, from the university, everyday intimate moments and soon realized that the use of this machine covered the fear that was created by digital photography(fear of endless production of images) and 'fill' the time gap that I create the roll film.

From 2012 until today I have created a series of commemorative instant photographs including, landscapes, portraits, flowers and other things that describe and contain memories from different times in different places. Are photographs inner reality where almost always contained a second reading which can be done by the photographer and the subject (in case of portrait). Many of these images are symbolic record a moment or better describe the ambience of the moment. I used the camera as my brain or my soul uses the memories and .

My lens not only turned into human figures (as we usually see in commemorative photos) and familiar faces in happy moments but tried to write something different from the everyday moments that would mark a moment in time with a single image that can not be recreated exactly the same.

The collection and storage of these photographs made me want to go one step behind the photographic process and to 'destroy' the photo and use it as a visualization of memory in my mind.