Found Polaroids KYLER ZELENY
From Found Polaroids, stories from the Found Polaroid Project, a collection of Polaroid photographs paired with short stories. Published by Aint-Bad in 2017. Kyler Zeleny is a Canadian photographer-researcher and creator of the Found Polaroids Project. He is a doctoral candidate in the joint Communication and Culture program at Ryerson and York University. He lives in Toronto.
POLAROID #62 I don’t buy jewelry for my wife. My wife wants me to photograph her. She likes when I photograph her in water. My wife, when we went to Morocco, she said it was one of the best holidays we’d had together. And I agreed—it was sunny and it was lovely. My wife bought a velvetish swimsuit in Morocco, with patterns of butterflies, blue and green. She said it was one of her favourite swimsuits when we got back. As we were unpacking she said I really like that photograph you took of me in the water. I nodded, it was a lovely photograph. Later I gave it to her and I wrote a note on the back of it. My wife, she’s happy. When we got back from Morocco she bought tagines and spices. She said she wanted to cook new things. She said, “do you like lamb? I’d like to cook some lamb for you.” So I said I like lamb and I don’t really know that I do. My wife, she bought a little cookbook with recipes in it, it’s got some really nice oriental patterns on it. She sits on the sofa and she puts her glasses on. They’re scaled in hues of green and blue. She sits by the lamp. My wife, she places the book between her thighs, and religiously licks her finger before she flicks each page. And when she’s picked one she likes she slips the photograph in as a bookmark. “This way I see it all the time,” she said.
sheer number of bad apps and bad people uploading them should serve as a warning to all Android users who have not yet done so to install security software. LETTER: RURAL SNOW CLEARING PROBLEMATIC: As a resident of Blind Bay, I have never seen such shoddy snow clearing as this year. PROBLEMATIC FAVES: FROM DUSK TILL DAWN:
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