About a month ago I got an email inviting me to submit a polaroid image (just one) for Light Leaks: Low Fidelity Photography magazine for their special Polaroid issue. Being that I had hundreds to choose from and was only allowed to send one, I asked for Jeff’s help in narrowing it down. I told him that he should submit one as well just for kicks. And a few weeks later we both got an email that congratulated us on having our photos selected by the guest editor and letting us know that we would be published.

Intro to the Gallery section called Polaroid: Your Last Best Shot:

“A few months ago, when this issue was planned, the future of Polaroid film looked pretty dark and dismal. I won’t say that the sun is shining again, but attempts are being made to bring back certain films and other manufacturers are entering the market, and that’s a good thing.

That being said, it was a cloudless day in terms of submissions. In fact, it’s the most we’ve ever received, and unfortunately, way more than we can fit on to these pages. Bravo to everyone for such interesting and varied work and thank you for taking the time to submit.”

In my complimentary issue there was a note from the publisher on a separate piece of card stock that congratulated ambiguous me for being published in their mag and that I was chosen among hundreds of submissions so I had a lot to be proud of. The note also happened to be bookmarking the page that had my photo on it so I don’t know if that’s coincidental or if they actually took the time to go through and personalize where these card stock notes went.

Anyway.

Jeff and I are published in the same magazine, together in the same issue, with photos that we took of each other. And to put the cherry on top, they included our images on the same page in the layout which I later learned was something that Jeff had requested, however, he got a response saying that it probably wouldn’t be likely that they could make sure our images were on the same page because the layout had already been decided. So I wonder if by chance the magazine was already layed out with our photos on the same page or if they really were nice enough to honor his request. Either way, it’s pretty fun stuff.

I learned today that I know the man who operates the world’s largest polaroid camera by three degrees of seperation. It’s housed here in NYC and a friend of a friend of mine knows this person. With the demise of polaroid though, she’s not quite sure what the status of the camera is, but I’m on a mission to meet this man and see if I can pick his brain or better yet, get a live tutorial on that beast.