Buried Polaroids

Having an early spring clean of my hard drive and whilst perusing through my MA work saw these little gems. They were created during my MA study as a possible final resolution. They were made by first shooting the scenes with a LF field camera onto Polaroid Type 79, processing the images on location and then burying them in the surrounding ground. The methodology behind this was to explore the notion on how the environment, more particularly the land itself could change and alter the images over time. The prints remained in the ground for typically 1 week but a couple of them about a month. Once I had unearthed them and allowed them to dry out I photographed them digitally on a rostrum camera. These images have been aesthetically appealing due to the rich texture and the process in which they were created.

I entered them into the Terry O'Neill Award in 2008 and got shortlisted, not for the prize but along with another eight photographers whom entered resulted in a group exhibition at the IPG in battle.