The Impossible Year

Tag: covid-19

  • 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…

  • Balcony Ballet, 9 April 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE / Impossible Color 600 (Expired) My wife has been keeping fit and passing the time by dressing up and doing ballet on our balcony while listening to ‘Jagged Little Pill’ the Alanis Morissette musical.

  • 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.

  • ALT Riverbank Neighbors Park, 2 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 2 / Impossible CR (Expired) Today I decided to bike the Berteau Avenue greenway west until I found the nature trails along the Chicago River aka ‘Riverbank Neighbors Park.’ So I dismounted and hiked for a bit, stopping along the water to watch the birds and…

  • Lincoln Square, Chicago1 April 2020 Polaroid OneStep 2 / Some film that’s been sitting in there for… I dunno how long. Okay, so… With everything going on this world and everyone trapped in their houses, I’m bringing this project back to life for an indefinite amount of time.  I’ve been taking bike rides around my neighborhood…