Toto Frima

Toto Frima has created a seemingly endless series of photographic portraits, each using a technique known as instant photography. Portraits in an SX 70 format, which later become 50 x 60 prints, were taken in one of the largest studios of the Polaroid company. These photographs all share a single theme: they are all portraits of quite young women, who seem to show hardly any signs of ageing over the period in which the photographs were taken. The women are often sparsely dressed or nude, sometimes a close-up of a female face is presented, sometimes a simple torso. The further back in time one goes, the greater the number of fragmentary photographs. But what remains evident is that women form the only theme of all the photographs.