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Jun 302012
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Embracing the Impossible

This is the story of how a handful of passionate analog instant film enthusiasts saved the last remaining Polaroid plant and all the adversities they had to overcome.

Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park – Pier 3

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This is the story of how a handful of passionate analog instant film enthusiasts saved the last remaining Polaroid plant and all the adversities they had to overcome. The Impossible project has spent the last four years dedicated to re-inventing and reviving an iconic medium almost lost to us forever.

Organizations

  • Impossible Project

    Impossible has been developing and manufacturing brand new instant film for Vintage Polaroid cameras at the former Polaroid production plant in Enschede, The Netherlands since 2008. Impossible films push analog instant photography beyond all traditional limits and offer a broad range of new possibilities, characteristics and results. Impossible prevents millions of perfectly functioning Polaroid cameras from becoming obsolete, changes the world of photography and keeps variety, tangibility and creative possibilities alive.

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