The Impossible Year

Tag: chicago

  • Angela aka #StoriesFromSixFeet, 13 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Today, I had the privilege of meeting (from a safe distance, while wearing PPE) Angela Conners Treimer who is conducting a portrait project visiting people and photographing them, from a distance, during the pandemic to share their stories. Follow her project here: https://www.instagram.com/StoriesFromSixFeet/

  • Easter Morning Line at Lost Larson, 12 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) We placed a pick up order from Lost Larson so we’d have something special to enjoy on this beautiful Easter morning. I biked up and soon found myself in a self organizing social distancing line. It’s encouraging to see people…

  • A Clean Garage, 11 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) So, today’s photo really doesn’t do justice to the work that was accomplished, but I vacuumed out our car, reorganized our portion of the shared garage and then swept out the whole thing. It was some great cardio work and really…

  • Lady Gregory’s, 10 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Beth Ann wanted fish and chips for Good Friday, so I placed a pick up order at Lady Gregory’s in Andersonville and biked up there. I have to say I was extremely impressed by how organized they were and prepared for this…

  • Passover 2020, 8 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) Every year our friends Lee and Rebecca host a Passover seder. Although not Jewish, we love celebrations of community and friendship, so we look forward to it every year. This year we joined in via Zoom and read the Haggadah from an…

  • Foremost Liquors, 7 April 2020 Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) I dug out my old SLE 680 and found a pack of film in it so I took a ride up to Argyle Avenue aka ‘Little Vietnam’ and found the usually bustling streets were virtually abandoned, all the restaurants were shuttered and even…

  • Window Silhouettes, 6 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 600 / Impossible 600 Color (Expired) More dreamlike expired film images. This time featuring our octopus candelabra and panther sculpture sitting in our front window.

  • St. Boniface Cemetery, 5 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 600 / Impossible 600 Color (Expired) Stopped off at St. Boniface on my ride today and tried again to work with this expired film.

  • Graceland Cemetery, 4 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 600 / Impossible 600 Color (Expired) I had a number of failures shooting today as the next film packs I pulled out have both been bad. That’s what you get when you store things for 6+ years. This is from a drive through Graceland Cemetery that my wife and…

  • Heart O’ Chicago Motel, 3 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 2 / Impossible CR (Expired) Today I biked through Broadway Avenue in Uptown, and Edgewater until I hit Ridge, I then followed Ridge until I hit this beautiful old place and took Ravenswood south back home.