William Miller is a veteran photojournalist from New York who once considered cameras to be merely tools that were used to interpret a visual story for the numerous magazines and newspapers that commissioned his work, but when he stumbled across a broken Polaroid camera at a yard sale, he found, through experimentation, that there was actually a story to be told by the inner workings of the camera itself. See more work below…

“With its first use I realized the camera wasn’t functioning properly. It sometimes spills out two pictures at a time and the film often gets stuck in the gears, exposing and mangling the images in unpredictable ways. 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.” – William Miller for Lens Culture

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