Q: Is any Polaroid film good for this technique?
A: No. Only SX 70 Time Zero film can be manipulated with incredible artistic results.

Q: Did you invent this technique?
A: Yes and No. We are the first to use the hot water technique to heat the emulsion which gives you an incredible constant heat source but Polaroid Manipulation has been done since the 70's with very few people in the world mastering it consistantly as a fine art medium.

Q: How long do you have to work on an image?
A: We have up to 20 minutes using our boiling water process. You can read about this process on the Polaroid Manipulation book available on this site

Q: Why boiling water?
A: We find that submerging the image into boiling water as a heat source, gives to the developing emulsion a very distinctive plyability different from any other heat source.

Q: How do you enlarged the original Polaroid?
A: We scan it at high resolution and also re-photograph it in the studio with medium format transparency film.
Both ways give us at the end a digital file and film from which we print.

Q: Do you print them yourself?
A: Yes. We have a studio where we print, matte and frame all our images.

Q: What is the printing process you use?
A: We use a Kodak 8600 thermal dye sublimation printer for our small images on photographic paper, and an Epson 7500 and 9500 with archival pigment inks for our larger images on water color paper, canvas and photographic paper.

Q: Are these prints archival?
A: Yes. The Epson 7500 and 9500 printers output prints that are rated for 200 years by the makers, since they are based on real pigment color. Thanks to technology the archival pigment inks allow artwork to be enjoyed and passed on for generations if preserved under the best conditions.

Q: Do you add any color to the originals?
A: Yes and No. Most of our originals are unpainted. We do hand paint some of our manipulated Polaroids. After the original is scanned we print it on water color paper with pigment inks and then paint the entire image with water colors. We also paint with oils directly on some of our Polaroids which gives them an amazing 3-dimentional texture and vibrancy of colors.

Q: Are your prints limited edition?
A: Yes. We publish limited editions. We also offer original manipulated SX-70 Polaroids and hand-painted Polaroids accompanied by a canvas print.