8×8 at the Hoxton Gallery

The Impossible Project has selected eight artists from the USA and Europe and challenged them to create eight pictures using their Instant Lab with any of Impossible’s color or b&w 600 or SX-70 films.

The exhibition will be on show until 22nd February.

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Amongst the artists exhibiting are some pretty interesting names:

Elegia: The Scottish-born, self-taught photographer focuses on the female body, often in unflinching self-portraits. She also plays with the unpredictable nature of Impossible film.

Alison Mosshart: One half of famed band The Kills, Mosshart has been shooting Polaroid-type film since she was a child. Her eight pieces focus on her diaristic observations of road trips and her home in LA.

Scout Willis: Artist and daughter of actors Bruce Willis and Demi Moore, Willis found fame as the most public activist of the U.S.-based feminist campaign, ‘Free The Nipple’. She explores intimacy and youthful sexuality in her eight images.

Chuck Grant: Grant describes her sister, singer/songwriter Lana Del Rey, as her muse. Her work has been featured in The New York Times and Complex.

Kate Bellm: Nomadic fashion photographer Bellm’s work celebrates the youth and sexual freedom. Using rich colors, her eight works span the globe, from Tokyo and New Zealand to her home in Deià, Spain.

Paulina Surys: Sury’s work involves the physical manipulation and collage of analogue instant photographs. The baroque, almost mythical nature of her work derives from her formal training as a fine art painter.

Andrew Millar: Northampton-born Millar has developed a style that is a haunting mix of reality and fantasy. His eight pieces feature, among other things, tiger-headed women and menacing sharks.

Oliver Blohm: Berlin-based fashion and portrait photographer Blohm has pushed the technical durability of Impossible film to the limit. A previous show of his focused on instant images that had been microwaved, and partly melted or burned.

20th February 2015 | Katherine Jane

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Oskar Smolokowski, the new CEO of Impossible explains that "It's not a question of analog or digital - they coexist, and you define how". ...and if you look carefully you may be able to spot Alice and myself in the crowd (no? Okay, that's us to the left and right of his curly hair).


Elegia with her 8 photos


Marc Carter from The English Group shows Elegia the layout of her monograph which we are publishing to accompany Issue Two, Quite Lovely.


Alice and I hanging out. Nobody is quite sure why I chose to visit uber cool Hoxton wearing my Grandma's cardigan.




Oliver Blohm standing with his 8 photos.


Having a chat with Oliver I learned that 'it all began with a microwave'.


Admiring Chuck Grant's 8 images


I was very excited to read that Kate Bellm would be exhibiting and her images did not disappoint.


8 photos by Paulina Surys.


Scout Willis with her 8 photos - making sure that we remember to 'Free The Nipple'.


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