The Impossible Year

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  • The Davis at Night, 21 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I’m fairly certain I’ve shot the Davis before. It’s a beautiful historic movie palace in Lincoln Square. A few years ago it was closed, remodeled and restored to its art deco glory and a bar was added called ‘Carbon Arc’ I miss it dearly…

  • Laura at Welles Park, 12 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Laura had a socially distanced birthday gathering in the park. A good time was had by all.

  • Patrick at Taco In A Bag, 1 July 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 ‘Taco In A Bag’ has to be one of my favorite local businesses. It’s a shop in Lincoln Square that is rife with personality, humor, and extremely creative takes on traditional fast food. The staff, head chef Patrick, especially have always…

  • BLM Boards, 29 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Saw this at the corner of Lincoln and Montrose. I’ve appreciated that as businesses chose to board up, that many have used this as an opportunity to create murals.

  • Welles Park, 16 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 I biked over to Welles Park to sit and read and took in this sunset. The silhouette hides it, but there is a crochet ‘BLM’ sign on here. You can see it here: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBhgRnYDG6s/

  • Protests in Lincoln Square, 7 June 2020Polaroid SLR 680 SE/Polaroid Color 600 Our neighborhood had a large protest on Sunday. Beth Ann came with me and we biked circles around the perimeter. Our community is overwhelmingly white and has had, at times, problems with white nationalist graffiti. I’m proud to see so many of my…

  • Lou Malnati’s, 19 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2/Color i-Type Film Biked around on Tuesday and tried to take a photo of the Lou Malnati’s sign on Lincoln Avenue. Unfortunately I also caught the sign which ruined the shot.

  • Gidding’s Plaza – Lombard Lamp, 8 May 2020Polaroid OneStep 2 / Color i-Type Film The Lincoln Square neighborhood is one of Chicago’s biggest German neighborhoods and tucked away in a corner of Giddings Plaza is a Lombard Lamp, which is an exact replica of ones found on the Lombard Bridge in Hamburg Germany since 1869. It…

  • 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…

  • Charley’s Birthday Polaroid Spectra Procam / Impossible PZ-680 Color Protection 11*12 We went out to Barba Yianni Grecian Taverna for Charley’s Birthday.