Mikael Kennedy: Passport to Trespass

Polaroids from a life lived

Mikael Kennedy told me he spent the first dozen or so years of his life convinced he was going to die, and that when he didn’t, he began seeing the world differently, wanting to experience everything he could. These photographs are a sampling from the results of Mikael’s recent years of domestic and international “wandering around” with his Polaroid camera: couch surfing; sleeping on beaches, in vans; nomadic. Ambivalent at first about a feature, unsure about the format, the photographs have grown on me. I’ve found myself daydreaming, enjoying a vicarious moment, and I’m excited about the way they look in the full screen format.

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