William Miller is a photojournalist. He created the wildly abstract and fascinating series, Ruined Polaroids. Miller seems to have taken a step back from his usual photographic style—that of telling narratives or stories—to explore this anomaly: a broken Polaroid camera. In Miller’s own description of the work on lensCulture, he says:
"I have been, for most of my career, a photojournalist. In this context, I have been interested in interpreting through photography, stories and narratives that I encounter in the world. Here the camera is the tool with which I focus outwards. That said, I find myself in the unusual position of perusing a photographic endeavor whose only narrative is the internal processes of photography itself.
These pictures are taken with a camera that is, by most definitions, broken…Over time I've figured out how to control and accentuate aspects of the camera's flaws but the images themselves are always a surprise. Each one is determined by the idiosyncrasies of the film and the camera.
This project, Ruined Polaroids, is an unintended exploration into the three-dimensional physical character of an antiquated photographic medium that touches on subjects from the artistic value of chance, to questions of what constitutes a photograph. I say unintended because what I'm focusing on here is a technological anomaly. The failure of a process."
(via lensCulture)
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