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Gary Franks
@gfrnks.bsky.social
Motion Designer & Media Artist
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@billorcutt.bsky.social at the Allan Gardens in Toronto, August 9th.

Shot on #Kodak #Portra400 with a Konica Big Mini #35mm.

Bill ripped on that tele from start to finish! 🙏
August 31, 2025 at 3:04 PM
I was honoured to be able to shoot some portraits w/ local hero @yulisato.bsky.social on #polaroid600 & #kodakportra400 last week.

Be sure to catch her show next Friday at Arlington 5! "The Space Between" w/ Katerina Vasilas.

#filmphotography #mediumformat #polaroid #portraitphotography #ottawa
March 9, 2025 at 12:27 AM
February 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Somewhere in the 2010s. Jane Hotel, NYC. Shot on a plastic, thrift store camera for the vibes.

#35mm #photography #filmphotography #fujifilm #analoguephotography
February 9, 2025 at 7:23 PM
February 8, 2025 at 12:33 AM
February 6, 2025 at 11:11 PM
The iconic Leah on Polaroid Spectra > emulsion lift > enlarged to make a paper negative > contact print.

Result: 8x10 gelatin silver print with all the markings of its journey.

Circa 2019.

#photography #darkroom #art #polaroid #portrait #monochrome #analogue #canadianphotographer #experimental
February 5, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Thinking on brighter, warmer days.

Rhetorical Summer, 2024.

#polaroid #sx70 #photography #art #landscape #analogue #canadianart
February 2, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Flowers, stone, and concrete on Polaroid Spectra (2024)

#art #photography #polaroid #monochrome #stilllife #bskyart #canadianart #canadianartist
February 1, 2025 at 4:34 PM
One of the many Polaroids I had up at de Montigny Contemporary (Formerly Studio Sixty Six) this past summer.

Rhetorical Summer, 2024.

A large-scale narrative, told across a grid of 32 images, captured on Polaroid SX70 film.

#photography #art #canadianart #canadianartist #polaroid #analogue
January 31, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Algernon, 2024.

Shot on a Sony A7iii with a SLRMagic microprime cine lens.

#photography #art #cat #canadianartist #digital
January 30, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Pippa on Spectra Polaroid (2019).

Probably the shot I am most proud of. We captured this in one-take with a 24 second exposure. We practiced the movements, steadied the mirror on a light stand, and managed to capture three images in one.

#photography #art #polaroid #artbsky #canadianart
January 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
More polaroid fun from the archives. A slow Spectra (rip) shot from inside a Montreal metro station in 2018.

#instantphotography #polaroid #photography #canadianart
January 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Another one from my dusty hard drives: Celia on long-exposure Spectra Polaroid (2018).

#photography #polaroid #finearts
January 28, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Pulling from the archives: Vintage @opencloseddoors.bsky.social on 35mm from 2018!
January 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM