My love affair with photography begins about 30 years ago with astronomical photography, which introduced me to development and printing in black and white. From there to be fascinated by infrared photography the pace was short (metaphorically since it required much more than 10 years) and with the help of digital photography, which in the meantime was beginning to make headway and be available also to the amateur photographer, has definitely conquered a piece of my heart that will always belong to her. Hand in hand with analogue infrared photography, thanks to a book on manipulating the Polaroids, I came into contact with instant photography and purchased a vintage SX-70 polaroid, which I still use.
Why do I mainly use polaroids for my lightpaintings? Well, first of all, why not?!
The serious reason is because I want to create something usnique and non-duplicable (even if at the end everything can be duplicated, even polaroids). I've always wanted to be able to paint, to create that special work of art which translates imagination into something touchable, and the polaroids give me that unique possibility... plus, the extra planning and study you need to work with polaroids make me feel a little like a super hero! :-)