Large Scale Prints

I had originally envisioned the outcome of my project as being a book of some sort, however, recently I have been leaning more towards a series of prints as the final display for the project.

I intend for the prints to be life-sized, rather than the original polaroid images and so with this in mind I began to experiment with large-format prints. The image below shows an A1, near life-size print in relation to myself. The image was printed using a poster-printer which is fast apporaching 20 years old, as you can see it only prints in black and white and its tonal range is limited, hence why these prints are solely for scale.

Though these images will be printed much larger than the original polaroids I still intend to use the Polaroid 403r passport camera as it is the most consistent and efficient, if not the most cost-effective, means of creating these images.

The idea behind a life-size scale is to create a more visceral engagement with the viewer, for the apparent deformity of the model to be more tangible than the original 31/4" x 41/4" images could be.