In May of 2004 a box containing an empty black book, Polaroid Land Camera, two packs of Polaroid 669 film, and a set of rules was sent around the world. The package took almost one full year to return to its place of origin.

The Polaroid Pass Around began as a means to give a select group of artists access to a camera and film they may have otherwise never used. A group of ten artists were selected from a graffiti website known as 12ozProphet. Being a long time member of the website, I sought out and invited artists, most of whom maintained an air of anonymity.

Photography lends itself as a necessary means of documenting the ephemeral. The ephemerality of graffiti can be daunting to an artist. This book seeks to join photography and graffiti as a two separate yet similar forms of art. The Polaroid Pass Around is more than a book as it becomes an important object that lends itself to the temporal halting of ephemerality.