Polaroid Stories

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A visceral blend of classical mythology and real life stories told by street kids. Naomi Iizuka’s Polaroid Stories journeys into a dangerous world where myth-making fulfills a fierce need for transcendence, where storytelling has the power to transform a reality in which characters’ lives are continually threatened, devalued and effaced. Not all the stories these characters tell are true; some are lies, wild yarns, and clever deceits, but whether or not a homeless kid invent an incredible history for himself isn’t the point, explains diarist-of-the-street Jim Grimsley. “All those stories and lies add up to something like the truth.” Inspired in part by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, Polaroid Stories takes place on an abandoned pier on the outermost edge of a city, a waystop for dreamers, dealers and desperadoes, a no-man’s land where runaways seek camaraderie, refuge, and escape.