In producing this body of work on vintage SX70 Polaroid stock, I aim to add a further layer to the central theme of regeneration. Polaroid sits almost in opposition to photography as a reproductive medium; it is one-off, unique, and irreplaceable. Polaroid has many of the qualities one would use to describe a building: static, solid, and permanent. However, as with a building that is losing its place and sitting at odds aesthetically with an area subject to regeneration, so is Polaroid sitting at odds with the technological advancements of photography. Much of the Polaroid now in existence has expired and is losing its chemical stability. The images that are produced are now precious, unstable, sometime dark and a little murky, and subject to change.

Despite a city being constituted of permanent structures, these structures are only as permanent as they are desired to be. Cities are constantly subject to rebuilding, sometimes because of an increase of socio-economic status, a need for improvement of living conditions, or due to a sudden shift in the make-up of the landscape as a direct result of a violent act. There are two integral parts to regeneration - teardown and rebuild - in which the landscape undergoes a series of incarnations before the final permanent structure takes the place of that which once was there. During the process of teardown and rebuild there is often uncovered the history of what once stood on the site the foundations of older structures long forgotten. Temporarily we can see a city stripped back to a previous era, and see the archaeology of that site's previous purpose within the city.

These images of what are ultimately solid yet impermanent structures, are recorded upon a photographic medium that is both a one-off, permanent record but is chemically unstable and will eventually fade into obscurity.