Polaroid Week Spring 2016: Our Top 20 Favorites!

Spring Polaroid Week started this year on April 18th and lasted until April 24th. In what is the 10th anniversary of this celebration of instant film on Flickr, 480 group members submitted a total of 2,300 instant photographs (at the time of this post)! We watched the action unfold and have chosen 20 of our absolute favorites! There are still thousands of amazing instant photographs to go see on the Flickr Group Pool!

A Short description from Roid Week’s Group Pool:

“We started POLAROID WEEK in 2006 to celebrate instant film. We also started it as a project – to see what new and interesting things we could do with instant film; and to challenge ourselves to produce some really great work.”

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Michael Behlen is a photography enthusiast from Fresno, CA. He works in finance and spends his free time shooting instant film and seeing live music, usually a combination of the two. Check out his work here!

Michael Behlen

Michael Behlen is a photography enthusiast from Fresno, CA. He works in finance and spends his free time shooting instant film and seeing live music, usually a combination of the two. He has self- published two Polaroid photobooks--“Searching for Stillness, Vol. 1” and “I Was a Pioneer,” literally a boxed set of his instant film work. He exhibited a variety of his photos at Raizana Teas, a Fresno tea room and health food store; his work there, “Polaroid Prints of Landscapes and Strangers,” was up for viewing during the months of June and July, 2014. He has been published, been interviewed, and been reviewed in a quantity of magazines, from” F-Stop” and “ToneLit” to “The Film Shooter’s Collective.” He loves the magic sensuality of instant film: its saturated, surreal colors; the unpredictability of the medium; it’s addictive qualities as you watch it develop. Behlen is the founder and Publisher of “Pryme Magazine.” You can see his work here: www.dontshakeitlikeapolaroid.com