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Photo by Lia Sáile

2/8 The Offices Hallway

Each floor of Building North is divided into big production, assembly and storage halls as well as into areas where you can find our offices, meeting rooms, laboratories and cafeteria.

In between you will find these long corridors that we are passing over every day in order to get from one task to the other. There is so much space that we sometimes feel like dancing or skating! Join us in doing so on our next Open House day – presumably sometime in May!

8 Factory Shots will present one photo a week for eight weeks.

Photo by Lia Sáile

1/8 The Impossible Lobby

Every morning more than 30 factory workers are passing through our beautiful 70s style entrance lobby of Building Noord (North).

Since its early days this building has been the heart of the Polaroid film production plant, housing the giant production machines.

Upon starting the Impossible Project we moved all other machinery required to start re-production of instant film into this very building. With this new and modern setup, production was downscaled from 3-4 buildings in Polaroid times to just one building.

Click here to take a virtual tour through our factory.

8 Factory Shots will present one photo a week for eight weeks.

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Ever since we started working at the Imposssible factory it was naturally all about development and production of Impossible instant films. In the end of February we dared venturing for a new initiative – a workshop! Only a few hours after we have sent a Newsletter to our Dutch supporters the workshop was fully booked which we took as a good sign.

The workshop was given by Carla Ellens, conceptual photographer and founder of beelbliC. Carla transformed one of our meeting rooms into a cozy studio with props and demonstration equipment. Garnished with a tour through the factory and lunch, the topic of the workshop was Lift It! Besides the techniques for image transfers Carla and the participants focused on shooting atmospheric portraits by posing and using designs, background, composition and perspective. At the end of the workshop, everyone was excited, happy and full of ideas.

We think that it was a very successful day and are planning a new workshop for autumn, so watch out for a Dutch Newsletter. Until then and due to limited capacity, please consider the possibility of the workshop at Carla’s photo gallery beeldbliC

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We are not called Impossible for nothing! By combining our team’s knowledge and efforts we celebrated a unique occasion this week: we are now able to slit trap (an integral and important part of each Impossible images) material in house! Not even in the Polaroid days was the factory able to slit trap material in house – it was considered simply impossible…. now we know it is Impossible!

Edwin ten Hove, whom you can see on the photo, is now operating this machine. The machine slits the trap material, which you need to neutralize and absorb surplus paste at the top of each picture. By absorbing surplus paste, the trap prevents paste from leaking out of the picture. And by adding neutralizing chemicals, paste that still may manage to escape from the frame is less harmful.

This little “endeavor to persevere” saves our company many thousands of Euros that we are now able to dedicate to further developing our precious film and to resolve production related issues.

A heartily welcome to the very first blog entry created by the Impossible factory team! From now on we will send digital signs of life live from our very analog location, sharing minor and major news with the Impossible blog readers.

Beyond daring to stir up the blogosphere (you should know that most of us were about 20 years old when computers where introduced, but in our 50ties when blogs and social media started ) we also ventured to submit our very own project amongst all your crazy fantastic 101 Ways projects – thanks for checking out project #307

Looking forward to sharing our daily Impossible ambitions, actions and news with you!