My first instant camera, taken by my iPhone, my latest instant camera.
I started making animated films while still at school. Cutout
films were produced in my back garden with my Standard 8mm and later, Super 8
home movie cameras, and featured changing lighting conditions and gusts of wind
that blew legs and arms away from my characters.
While I waited ten days for the results to come back from
Kodak, I would create a more instant form of storytelling. My Polaroid camera
was used to take stills to illustrate my early storytelling. They are far
too embarrassing to publish, but still exist. Looking at these small
black and white photos, I can still recall the excitement as, aided
by the waft of chemical, I peeled back the grey paper to reveal my
latest attempt at photography. And they haven't even faded after forty years.
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