[Leica] My Polaroid SX-70 Project

[Christopher Crawford]

A lot of people have asked me why I have been shooting nearly everything with Polaroid for the last several months.

 

At the beginning of April, 2022 I decided to buy a forty-four year old Polaroid SX-70 camera. I had originally intended to just play around with it for fun; but I began to wonder if it would be possible to use the SX-70 for serious documentary photography and fine art photography, despite the limitations imposed by a camera that has a non-interchangeable lens, doesn't allow fully manual exposure control, and uses a film with a very high contrast rendering compared to digital cameras and conventional color films. It has been a challenge!

 

As most of you know, for nearly thirty years, I have been working on a long-term documentary project centered on my home state of Indiana in the American Midwest. This year, I am using the Polaroid camera for nearly all of my continuing work on these projects.

 

I've built a website explaining the project in more details, with galleries of the nearly 300 photos I have made so far (well, the ones that came out good!).

 

https://sx70project.com

 

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Chris Crawford

Fine Art Photography

Fort Wayne, Indiana

260-437-8990

 

https://chriscrawfordphoto.com  My portfolio

 

https://sx70project.com The Polaroid SX-70 Project

 

https://crawfordphotoschool.com Learn From Me