Dear FSC friends, this is Urizen Freaza.
I dislike riding a bike, I can't climb a wall, I hate the idea of bungee jumping, skating sounds counterproductive and the concept of jumping from a plane is the closest I can imagine to a living nightmare. At some point in my life I realized I like to keep my feet touching the ground. Why? No clue. Does it make any sense? Probably not.
In these times of AI synthesized images lurking around every corner, of contradictory misinformation everywhere, of infinite gray areas: there's no one dogma to follow, there's no path in front of us, just a million possibilities. There's somehow comfort in shooting a Polaroid, in looking through the viewer and turning that scene into an object, something in your hands. A Polaroid is evidence, a Polaroid is reality, even if that's just in a tangential, embedded way. It's a link to now or to then, and definitely something certain, that is or was there. Even if manipulated, scratched, painted, lifted, even when that's not even part of the message or relevant for the intent, Polaroids are real.
I like my Polaroids just as I like my feet touching the ground.
Here's again a respectfully imperfect roundup of the photos tagged with #fscpolaroid on instagram during Spring Polaroid Week 2023. Please go check the artists’ profiles, and if you like what you see, follow them and show them love. And most importantly, check out the Polaroid Week pool on Flickr, on Twitter, and on Instagram .
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Urizen Freaza was born in Tenerife in 1982 and is since 2010 based in Berlin. He's a self-taught photographer and film-maker. Self-taught meaning that this is a path he's still walking, while hoping there is always more path to walk. He's a member of the Film Shooters Collective and part of the team behind the analogueNOW! festival in Berlin. See more of his work on his website and on Instagram.