Polaroids: Gemma V Rose
[Camera: Polaroid SLR 680 – expired Impossible Project duochrome film]
Model – @Gemmavrose
Tag: expired polaroid
Polaroids: Fur Triptych
Polaroids: Fur Triptych – Black & Red Monochrome
[Camera: Polaroid SLR 680 – impossible project expired monochrome film]
Superficially
Perfect lives edited for
Social media 
A balled up bralette
Sits on the bedside table
Raising self-esteem
Call from a party
Drunk 4am bathroom tears
Everything changes
Polaroids: Fire Poi – Black & Yellow Monochrome
Polaroids: Fire Poi – Black & Yellow Monochrome
[Camera: Polaroid SLR 680 – impossible project expired monochrome film]
I took these Polaroids of a friend light painting with fire at the derelict Botanic Gardens Railway platform recently. My first time using Third Man Records black and yellow monochrome film, which I’d let run out of date before use.
Chiaroscuro
Fading daily in my heart
The light you painted
Silence in the dark
Quietus still not at peace
Lit nights sleepless daze
Polaroids: Untitled Triptych
Polaroids: Untitled Triptych
[Camera: Polaroid SLR 680 – impossible project (out of date) colour film]
Some Polaroids I took recently and three 5/7/5 syllable haiku about sex and complete and utter despair.
Cry laughing emoji x3, Cheeky monkey emoji x3, Eggplant emoji.
The first time that I
Fucked someone I didn’t adore
Was liberating
Wash my genitals
In the sink and wait for your
Taxi to arrive
Reminders of you –
Tobacco, Booze, Arguments
And the smell of sex
Polaroids: Favours Of Your Flesh Triptych
Polaroids: Favours Of Your Flesh Triptych
[Camera: Polaroid SLR 680 – impossible project 600 bw film (out of date)]
I want to whisper
Into your ear – You are an
Abomination
Words – Softly spoken
How can love benefit you?
When you are so cold
The works of the flesh
Given away in favours
May be stilled in death
Polaroids: Expired Image/Spectra Film Triptych
Polaroids: Expired Image/Spectra Film Triptych
[Camera: Polaroid Image with Close Up Stand – expired Polaroid film]
These were shot on expired Polaroid film using a Polaroid Image (full switch) camera with a Close-Up 7500 stand attachment.
The “full switch” version of the Image/Spectra camera feature sliders for exposure control, flash, AutoFocus, sound override, self-timer and a feet or meters distance selector. While the one switch version allows you to control only the exposure.
Image/Spectra/1200 type film is a wider format than the usual 600/sx-70 Polaroid film (9.2 x 7.3 cm vs 7.9 x 7.9 cm). This film expired 02/05 which has given the prints a dreamy pastel colouring along with undeveloped patches and vertical stripes of colour. This is all down to the thickening, evaporation and ageing of the emulsion due to the film being out of date and/or badly stored.
