You feel like you know these images ... and you are probably right.  The Polaroid Big Shot was a favorite of Andy Warhol and many of his most famous work began with this camera.

This Polaroid camera is almost entirely forgotten.  A head-and-shoulders-only, weird-looking portrait machine, the Big Shot was made between 1971 and 1973.  It is entirely plastic and has a fixed-focus, requiring the photographer to do the "Big Shot Shuffle" to get focused images. Both the flashes (Magicubes) and the film (Fuji FP-100c) are discontinued, with prices on both rising by the day.  The future of the Polaroid Big Shot is as a curio on collectors' shelves.

But the Big Shot isn't dead yet.  When I discovered that I would have opportunity to photograph the lovely Willa Prescott, I knew that she would be the perfect subject for one of this camera's last adventures.

• Model: Willa Prescott

• Time: Summer 2017

• Camera: Polaroid Big Shot

• Film: Fuji FP-100C

I purchased my Polaroid Big Shot from the Film Photography Project.