Mostly Polaroids – Dougie Kennedy
35mm: Reappraisal of Demolished Achievement Triptych
Camera: Asahi Pentax SP 1000 on expired Kodacolor 200
Site of the Kinning Park Cooperative Society (demolished 1902) Bridge Street, Glasgow.
The site is situated between India Buildings (37-45 Bridge Street) on the left and the former Coop drapery warehouse extension to the right (61 Bridge Street).
Coin-Operated – Arcade Machines, Glasgow
[Chinatown, Cowcaddens]
These photos were taken in the Chinatown Mall, Glasgow.
Four accompanying haiku document my early sexual experiences.
Fifty pence per play
Clammy hands on warm joysticks
While button flicking
Feeling the pressure
Friends watching over shoulder
Only one life left
Hammering controls
A new challenger enters
Knock out! – play again?
The countdown begins
Insert coins to continue
Lost it – GAME OVER
Polaroids: SALES // BROKEN // REPAIR
[Camera: Polaroid Impulse Portrait – impossible project 600 colour film]
An early morning diversion took me passed an old electronic store. It was closed and it’s shutters were down. I only glanced at it as I went by on a bus and saw what looked like an interesting painted typeface on the shutters. It reminded me of photos of 1970s New York and I thought it would make a nice Polaroid or two. Worried the shop would be open and the shutters up by the time I’d nipped home to grab my camera I hurried back. On my return the shutters were still down, reading the services advertised – among them sales of cassettes and video repairs – I would guess the shutters haven’t been up in a long time.
The walk home brought me to an abandoned ‘Computer Play’ arcade machine. This graffitied relic sits dead outside a newsagent in Govanhill unloved & unplugged. RIP my childhood.
SALES // BROKEN // REPAIRS
