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Beware: instant cameras that produce Zink photos may not be a good option for preserving memories long term.

Before ever setting foot in Colombia, I knew there was more to the country than the stories and imagery of war, violence, drug trafficking, and assorted horrors which pervade the media. So, in 2003, I headed to Colombia for the first time. Little did I know that would be the start of a project that I would carry out over eleven years and become the book No Dar Papaya.

Snapchat is known for popularizing the idea of the self-destructing photo, but did you know that long before Snapchat existed, Polaroid had already offered its own line of self-destructing Polaroid pictures? It was called the Fade to Black line.

Polaroid today announced the Polaroid Pop, a new digital instant camera that creates instant photos with the look of classic 3x4-inch Polaroid pictures with the iconic white borders.

"The People I've Met" is a project by photographer Krista Langley that involves one Polaroid camera and one question. Langley shoots portraits of her friends and family and asks them to write down the answer to the question "what would you do if you knew you could not fail?".

Instead of using a traditional guestbook at their wedding, Jess and Sloane asked …