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Polaroid dies: my life in plastic squares (16 images)

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The Polaroid camera has officially died on 29 September with the last batch of instant film expiring, and with it, a generation of expression. Former employees are running an initiative in Holland, you can convert your own polaroids online and Mylastpolaroid.com are making a documentary. One Greek photographer shares fifteen years of his professional life in Polaroid

2009: tracing fifteen years of Polaroid portraits backwards in time

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2009

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2005

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2004

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2003

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2002

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2001

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2000 (part I)

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2000 (part II)

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1999

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1997

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1996

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1995

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1994

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1993: first day as a photographer's assistant

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Last Polaroid camera: an old Mamiya

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