A Walk in Purple.
I wasn't completely sure what the film would give me. That uncertainty became part of the experience.
During PolaCon Week, I joined a photo walk across the Brooklyn Bridge with my Polaroid SX-70R Sonar loaded with Purple 600 Film from the Reclaimed Series.
It was my first time shooting the film since its return, and I didn't want to overthink what I photographed.
Faces, photographers, steel cables, stone and sky shifted into violet, electric purple and deep blue-toned shadows. Familiar pieces of New York suddenly felt unfamiliar.
Rather than trying to control the film, I let the walk, the people and the city guide each frame.
A familiar city,
seen differently.
The film wasn't simply recording what was in front of me. It was interpreting it.
Skin shifted into violet. Stone took on purple tones. Steel, sky and shadow began to merge.
Even the Brooklyn Bridge, one of the most photographed structures in New York, suddenly felt different.
That unpredictability is part of what keeps pulling me toward instant film. There is no perfect preview and no second chance to recreate the exact same frame.
You make the photograph, wait, and allow the material itself to become part of the image.
For my first pack of Purple 600 Film, I didn't want to overthink it. I photographed whatever caught my attention during the walk: people I met, photographers around me, small details and the structure of the bridge itself.
The limited number of exposures slowed everything down. Each frame had to feel worth making.
