A collection of ten polaroids by AC Berkheiser will be on display at NYPH 09 from May 13–17. We Are All Photographers Now, is curated by William A. Ewing, Director of the Musée de l'Elysée, Lausanne, and examines the degree to which technology blurs the line between amatuer and professional photographer. He notes: "Everything is changing…how we take photographs, manipulate them, share them, store them—even how we pose for them. Our tools are mutating quickly, promising ever faster, clearer, brighter and cheaper pictures. Meanwhile telephones become cameras, desktop printers morph into mini-printing labs, and high-definition screens threaten to dislodge the venerable photographic print from gallery walls. And the eyes of the whole world are only a click away from the computer keyboard." Ouch.

Stop by to see our doomed fate or our irrevocable promise—depending on which team you're snapping for.

I used to ride past this old truck in North Carolina on my way to school every day that looked just like this one. To say that I coveted its curves and singularity is a pastel way to describe how hhhhot I thought it was. Too bad it was rusted and undriveable, doomed to live up on blocks in a redneck’s yard. When I saw this one in Brooklyn a week ago, it reminded me of that careful little relic from times when people cared a little more about design, a little less about technology.

By now, the news that Polaroid is ripping my beloved 600 film from the center of my heart is as old as the crowd at the Center for Book Arts lecture I attended Friday. Yes, there are pending rumors about third party pick-ups, but I blame its death on the laziness of digital. Are people just not making things anymore? Come on, folks. Get off the internet and create tangibility. I’m afraid this relic will go in the 2008 time capsule with my Print Gocco. So sad.

These shots are from the Thunderbird American Indian Pow-wow in New York this summer. They’re taken with my SX-70 Alpha I.

See more of my Polaroid SX-70 set on Flickr.