Emily Ratajkowski (@emrata) at the Cult Gaia opening on 8x10 Polaroid film

8x10 Polaroids

January 31, 2024

Last February, I was hired to shoot some large format 8x10 Polaroids at a store opening party for the fashion brand, Cult Gaia, in SoHo. The event was packed and had some notable guests including Emily Ratajkowski.

I was shooting for Brooklyn Film Camera and had my buddy Sam Dole assist me. Sam previously did some assisting for the 1923 shoot I also assisted on and is well-versed in all things large format. We set up outside the store right next to their red carpet and after a test shot we were ready for action.

@weworewhat

@wuzg00d

@yoventura

@sandrashehab

@katyatolstova

I ended up shooting over 50 8x10 Polaroids that evening. A lot of cool fits and some familiar faces of the NYC Fashion world but the highlight was definitely Emily Ratajkowski stopping by to get a couple portraits of her and the owner of the store, Jasmin Larian. Given the chilly temps outside, they came out absolutely stunning and everyone loved seeing their Polaroid.

Hoping to do more 8x10 work this year. It’s quite the process but the results are next level, especially in person.

Jasmin Larian (@jasminlarian), owner of Cult Gaia, at the store opening on 8x10 Polaroid

NYFW Inherent show BTS // Large Format + 35mm + Polaroids

October 20, 2023

I love shooting NYFW. It’s fun. It’s exhausting. The outfits are insane. You meet cool people. The energy is fantastic. So when my friend, Burke, asked me to shoot some BTS alongside him at the Inherent fashion show at NYFW back in February and said “bring whatever cameras you want”, I was in.

So with that much flexibility... I’ll share a bit about the cameras I ended up bringing for those interested…

I’m always up for a challenge, so I brought my Graflex Super D large format SLR camera with some BW film pushed to 1600 since I figured NYFW isn’t often captured on large format these days and now is the time to make it happen. Then I had my Canon AE-1P with the Lomography 85mm Petzval lens with CineStill 800T and as a silly last thing, I brought a Polaroid Passport 2-lens camera and some very expired Polaroid 669 peelapart film for some diptychs.

Unfortunately, I could only stay for the setup as I had plans that evening but it was great just capturing the models and the show BTS in those moments.

I posted most of on my instagram already but with NYFW having just happened again at the beginning of September, figured I’d get these up on the blog.

NYFW SS2020 Street Style + Kid Super // Super 8 + Polaroids + 120

March 21, 2020

Last fall, had some time to finally check out NYFW a bit and capture it on film. Definitely a small handful of photographers out there during fashion week shooting film and even smaller shooting Super 8 and Polaroids so figured it’d be something a bit outside of the standard. Even managed to get backstage at the Kid Super show to shoot some Super 8!

Spring Street Studios in SoHo is the main location for many of the fashion shows since it split up it’s single location shows that used to be held in Lincoln Center. This makes for a variety of strange and interesting locations like the COACH show I went to on the highline and the Kid Super fashion show inside an under construction building in Williamsburg.

Like my friend and fashion street style photographer, Dan Bassini, I didn’t have an invite to any of the shows (until a last minute favor from a friend for the Kid Super show) so I primarily strolled around the areas where the shows were to grab some portraits. I primarily shot with my Polaroid 110B which definitely drew a lot of surprised looks as well as a Mamiya C330 medium format camera, also a looker. Without autofocus and all manual, it required some waving of the cameras and polite requests to get portraits but in the end, was worth it. The Super 8 I shot outside of Spring was a casual but fun avenue to get “moving portraits” of the models.

The COACH show at the highline was truly a mass of big names and people attending and the crowd showed. Anna Wintor and a variety of other larger names outside of my knowledge passed through the crowd to attend the show.

With Kid Super, an NYC friend happened to be producing the show and managed to get me backstage of the show featuring the hip-hop artist, Action Bronson, to shoot some Super 8 and 35mm BTS. Was a dope show featuring garments made entirely out of recycled fabrics. It was a weekend highlight. Shot some quick 35mm shots during and after the show of the people and outfits at that show and there were some real standouts.

Was just at it again this year, with a few custom Instax cameras and 35mm cameras so hopefully posting those soon!

Super 8mm and Polaroid work featured on

Instagram