POLAROID: The Instant Image explores the instant photograph as both image and object. More than a picture, the instant print carries its own material logic—shaped by chemistry, scale, handling, and the visible traces of its development. Each work exists as a physical artifact, marked by immediacy and touch.

This exhibition welcomes all analog instant formats, including Polaroid, Fuji Instax, peel-apart films, large-format 4×5 instant processes, and other legacy or contemporary instant materials. The focus is not brand, but materiality: surface, unpredictability, and the direct relationship between image, process, and time.

Artists may submit either original instant prints (to be framed by Praxis) or high-resolution scans that Praxis will print at true instant-film scale. Sculptural or three-dimensional instant works must be submitted as 2D photographic documentation for exhibition. Created by Praxis Directors.