In this book Miles Aldridge delves into his Polaroid archive - venturing back through twenty years of enhancing, modifying, reassembling and discarding. Many of these Polaroids were intentionally annotated or accidentally damaged while working on different shoots. Liberated from their original context, the images take on a life of their own by evolving into surreal and cinematic narratives. By enlarging and manipulating the Polaroids in unpredictable ways, Aldridge devotes himself to each Polaroid as an independent image while simultaneously learning to appreciate the importance of flaws and imperfections. This book provides us with a rare insight into a photographer's odyssey; an unfolding journey of the imagination in parallel to his working process.

Miles Aldridge was born in London in 1964, where he continues to live and work today. He studied at Central Saint Martins and after graduating worked briefly as an illustrator before finding his way to photography in 1993. His photographs have appeared regularly in international publications such as American Vogue, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and most notably Vogue Italia, with which he has collaborated closely throughout his career. Aldridge's books include Pictures for Photographs (2009), Other Pictures (2012), and I Only Want You to Love Me (2013). In April 2014, he was invited by Tate Britain to create a temporary installation entitled Carousel II, as a response to Mark Gertler's 1916 painting Merry-Go-Round.