The Portrait Booth Project is a live photographic homage to the intimate, quirky and often amazing portrait photography trend of the late 19th Century.

Think equal parts random street photo booth, old-timey family vacation photos and a portrait studio around 1880, and you'll start to picture where this is going. I'm shooting with a 1968 Polaroid on instant black and white film in a 7-foot-tall canvas booth. If all goes well it should be found in varying locals about Portland over the course of the summer, and I'll have paper negatives to scan and compile here in time.

To kick off the project I'll be setup, weather permitting, at the Last Thursday street fair in North East Portland on Thursday April 30th outside of Ampersand Vintage at 29th and Alberta.

Try to stop by and get your portrait shot out in the street on some wacky old-school Polaroid film and enjoy the rest of Last Thursday.