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Growing up, my parents kept a large box in storage. Inside was years of photographs...some Polaroids, some prints, others slides. Every year we would gather around the box and open it to grab handfuls of them. My mother would try her best to answer all our questions about “Who was this? Is this me? What happened to this Chevy Nova dad!?” It's the random frames of history in your hands. There is something magical about the physicality of photographs which allow you to connect to the past. Not only has the person in the photo aged but so has the paper it was printed on. You can look at a photo and know that you are holding something in your hands that the photographer touched as well. To me, that connection to the passage of time has just as large of an impact as the photograph itself.Over time, more and more people have moved seamlessly towards digital to shoot and store vast amounts of photos. While we can all agree it's far more convenient this way, still we all subconsciously know there is something missing, that textural involvement...something to hold in your hands. We are, ever so valiantly, trying to re-attain some of those missing elements through printing, though it's a different type of print than the photos of my childhood. Then, it was pure chemical. Now, it's ink jet and laser printing. While, digital print can get close, there is still a certain je ne sais quoi about chemical.With the release of the iPhone, millions upon millions of new photographers came onto the scene in a split second, all carrying their cameras with them in their pockets. Apps like Shake it Photo, Instagram, and Cross Process enable people to recreate the look of a Polaroid, print, or film stock. Quickly people took a liking to it; all over Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr you see vast amounts of digitally cross-processed images trying to reclaim that vintage style. To me, that look isn't what encapsulates the full beauty of an old photograph, that beauty lies in the physicality of the print. Adding a border and digitally toning an iPhone photo might make it look like a Polaroid, but its not...it will never be. You can't dig your hands into a box of iPhone photos.More and more, I feel like people are forgetting the beauty of analog. We are so conditioned to desire faster and better DSLRs or smaller cell phones that we miss out on the beauty of the process that photography offers. In addition, we lose contact with the physicality of the picture. To me I feel like apps who's sole purpose is to simulate “vintage” have taken away the impact that a true print holds. So I decided, not with an app, but with an actual Polaroid camera to try and bring that magic back to digital photography. I wanted to bring not only the “look” of a Polaroid, but the touch, texture, grain, scratch, tone, and shape. I wanted to “Re_Analog” some of my digital photography.Enjoy!,Mark