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Bye Bye Polaroid
For the last 12 years Richard has been monitoring subcultures, such as documenting skateboarding to photographing items of lost property. He was spurred on to develop this exhibition due to Polaroid’s announcement that due to marketplace conditions they were discontinuing almost all of their instant analog hardware products and were to cease manufacturing of instant film products in 2008.
“When I heard this I went into a state of shock and the result is this exhibition of photographs, which is essentially one man’s analog panic”, says Richard.
“In the show are a collection of both personal portraits and a series of colour landscapes, which are all shot on discontinued and for the most part, out of date film. I am dreading the moment when push comes to shove and it’s time for me to shoot my final Polaroid. So for the time being all I can do is accept that things move on and give my Polaroid brothers a hearty handshake and offer up my appreciation for the good times. Its been a real pleasure”.
Richard has exhibited worldwide and has also had work published internationally. He loves the smell of film and is currently working freelance from South Studios in Dublin, mixing commercial work alongside his own documentary projects.
His solo exhibition ‘Bye Bye Polaroid’ can be viewed at the Monstertruck Gallery, 73 Francis Street, Dublin 8 from 16th - 28th of October.
