Welcome back to Viewfinder, our ongoing series showcasing interesting projects that incorporate Impossible film. This week, we bring you Texas photographer Kyle Vaughn…
“My name is Kyle Vaughn, and I am a writer, teacher, and photographer in Dallas, Texas. As an artist, though I’ve predominantly worked as a writer over the last 15 years, I’ve increasingly turned to photography for inspiration and have even made a go at photography at a more professional level, publishing images and making and selling Polaroid posters. And though I continue on mainly as a writer, I’d say that photography somewhat saved my writing, teaching me how to better see the images I was after and how to study multiple points of view (even the inside of something), somewhat like the sculptor Auguste Rodin challenged his secretary to do. As it happens, his secretary was the poet Rainer Maria Rilke! I learned that as a writer, I am not separate from the things I am writing about, not somehow above the world, not in character nor in spirit nor in mind. I learned that I needed to interact with the world, be involved. That merging of the metaphysical back into the physical is what, in part, drew me to instant photography. And as an artist who loves to both preserve the important parts of my past, but also experiment, I have been fascinated and inspired by the Impossible Project from the moment I read of their plan to continue...Read All
