Learn Polaroid Lifts

This Polaroid LIft Class/Workshop is something that’s been honed over the years since 2020.  Aimed primarily at adults and artistically-inclined high schoolers, the goal is to encourage students to look at image-making through a different lens, with a physical art print being the end result.   Each student will go home with their own tray, brush and at least 1 final ‘lifted’ image (or up to 3 as time allows). 

In this class you will learn:

• The entire process of creating Polaroid Lifts
• Best practices on what kind of photos make for the most successful lifts
• How to edit your photos for best results
• Different techniques from getting a perfect square image to making imperfections a desired component of the final presentation
• How to select desired supplies for when you try this at home and other ways you can explore in your own practice

INSTRUCTOR BIO:

Allison Webber is a commercial and fine art photographer based in San Francisco.  Her clients range from Google and Nike to printed publications including Juxtapoz and Collectif 1806, legacy brands such as Maker’s Mark and Bacardi and startups just launching into the marketplace.  Her work has been shown at Black Box Gallery (Portland), Center for Fine Art Photography (Houston), RayKo (San Francisco) and PhotoPlace Gallery (Vermont).

Between client work, Allison spends her time expanding her fine art practice, exploring alternative processes, slowing down with film cameras, noticing details large and small on road trips around the country and taking long walks with the dogs. 

With so much visual content living exclusively in the digital space, it is increasingly important to find new ways to make physical art that doesn’t require a screen interface to be experienced.

Transforming images on phones into tactile prints presents an exciting opportunity.  Being able to take something as commonplace as a smartphone photo and turning it into something that warrants hanging on a wall opens up a world of opportunities to be creative and invite others to look at things in a new way.  Allison thrives on introducing this unique process to newcomers and breathing new life into image-making beyond the digital.

Learn more about Allison’s work here:  allisonwebber.com