Snapshot: Inside Stuart Sandford’s “Polaroid Collages 2018-2020” Book.

Jul 6

Stuart Sandford is a UK-born artist whose work has has been exhibited in the likes of the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit and Centre de la Photographie, Genève. His work has been featured in numerous publications and it appears in many private collections around the world, including the Sir Elton John Photography Collection. According to an excerpt from his new book, his latest collection of images, “documents the artist’s social circle – his “friends, lovers & others,” in his own words – in several locations between Los Angeles and Mexico”.

In a feature for Advocate, Sandford notes: “Taking a Polaroid finds a perfect equivalent in writing down a note: both actions share the same immediacy and respond to the same urgency of fixing an idea before it disappears. It’s something that has to do with capturing a thought or an instant, clinging to a moment, in the awareness that we’ll be able to go back to it, in the form of memories. Promises of a pleasure yet to come.”