Last month on a trip to Camden market I found a stall selling old Polaroid camera’s and just knew I had to get one!

I’d been thinking about getting one to play with for a while so once I had one in my hands it was snapped up immediately.

Honestly I expected it to just sit on a shelf as an ornament but it turns out you can still get film, its a long story but the original company stopped trading and a crowdfunded campaign called the “impossible project” was started to try and create brand new film packs for everyone to get their camera’s running again; and it was such a success that they bought the Polaroid name and even started creating newer camera’s for the instant photography enthusiasts.

I fell in love taking a few snaps with the vintage camera so I bought one of the new ones too! They added tonnes of features like double exposure so you can superimpose pictures onto each other, the options to change shutter speed and aperture, self timer. There’s so much to play with.

If anybody’s ever used a Polaroid you will be all too aware that they do take some skill to get a good picture out of and the agonizing wait for the picture to develop!

But that’s what makes it so special, having to wait to see the end result, the cost of the film means making every shot count and unlike digital camera’s where pictures are duplicated thousands or even millions of times over social media, there is only ever 1 picture.

Each Polaroid picture is unique and so special, a physical representation of the light at just 1 point in time.

I’ve started taking my Polaroid camera’s to photo shoots with me and asking the photographers to take a Polaroid and each one so far has loved handling the camera, their eyes light up, they get a smile on their face and delight as the picture ejects from the bottom!

One day I’m hoping to do a full swimsuit series of pictures with the Polaroid and get some real pictures to be treasured.

Oh! And lets quickly talk about the film packs, of course you can get the colour film exposures which have a unique warm look to them, they do black and white film packs but also some black&blue and black&yellow film packs which make for great atmospheric pictures perfect for recording moments of bondage with some feeling.

So much fun to be had….