ARSENI KHAMZIN'S PHOTOGRAPHIC JOURNAL

A few more Polaroids from Ecuador:

Water Tower, Banos, Ecuador.

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Accidental triple-exposure. Ayampe, Ecuador.

Accidental light-leak. Ayampe, Ecuador.

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A demonstration for tourists of how things are done in the jungle.

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Quito, Ecuador.

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Friends, Teo & Camilla.

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best,
arseni

A few photos from Vancouver in November. Try-outs with a Yashica T4.

Barnett Newman Nail Composition w/ Blue Pliers.

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Early one morning I found this fluorescent red toy in the frost that dusted Strathcona park just after sunrise.

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Bella / Tom

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Mom

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More soon.

enjoy,
arseni

Some more Polaroids from Ecuador. I’d like to get them scanned and sorted before I start scanning the rest of my film. I’ll probably make two or three more long posts. Some of these are dusty, oops.

Please click for larger images (they look better).

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Sometimes, you’re compelled to go into chest-deep water with a Polaroid camera.

And sometimes it survives after going into a coma from getting hit by the wave this surfer was riding.

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Sometimes, you come upon perfect rainbows shearing valleys from end to end against an electric sky.

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Other times, you lay under pods of Pelicans flying low in long V-formations.

Or spot embraces under spindly palms.

Or moments filled with energy in evening light.

Or compositions in ashes featherlike, sootlike, scattered on hillsides and beaches.

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Or you look where others look on tall volcanic hillsides,

along sub-tropical ranges,

or in tropical jungles.

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Following the grooves of the earth from cars,

along landscapes gray and beige and green and black and blue,

barren places,

places that stretch the eyes,

where wild horses rove,

where mountains swallow up lakes,

and where mines swallow up mountains,

plunging hillsides under the gaze of infinity pools,

shaping white, artifical domes that mimic the Mediterranean,

and spread down to an ocean violent and thirsty and alive.

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more soon,

arseni

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(References/Inspiration/Academic Frameworks: Todd Hido – Occupied Homes, Fazal Sheikh – (Polaroid Works), Jan Nemec – Untitled Polaroids, etc)

Happy New Year.

Some updates: I visited Ecuador for five weeks recently. I plan to post quite a few images from there from now on.I will also post more past work that I’ve neglected.

This is the first part from Ecuador. The following images are Fuji Instax (Polaroids) taken from moving vehicles. These are unique one-of-a-kind images. I spent close to 20% of my waking hours in Ecuador sitting in a car, driving to places, from places, between places, in and around places, watching things pass by and the mountains change to jungle and sand. This experience creates some obvious restrictions for how photographs can be made, and what they can depict.

These were exercises; exercises created on endless snakelike highways trying to capture the people and the landscape and all else alien that flit past my fast moving window.

Please click on the images to see full size (more details).

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enjoy,
arseni

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(References/Inspiration/Academic Frameworks: Paul Fusco – RFK Funeral Train, etc.)