Carol Peachee '76

Carol Peachee, 1976 Graduate

Polaroid Transfers on Watercolor Paper, Athens, 1974

“Each image is a slide that I took while on the Hollins Abroad Paris year. I have taken the slide and created a Polaroid Transfer image onto watercolor paper. The effects are hazy and slightly

blurred, each unique, suggesting "memory" of the event or place.” (Peachee)

In 2008, Carol began the process of experimenting with alternative processes in photography. Through her work with Polaroid Transfers, she began to explore the relationship between the processing of images from slides and memory. The final image is rendered blurrier than the original slide, slightly aged in color, and mostly suggestive in shape. Much like memory, the elements are correct, but much of the detail is hazy rather than sharp and definitive.

Carol described her 1974 summer trip throughout Europe similarly; the months between her Spring and Fall Paris Abroad semesters were described broadly and with foggier recollection, but with elements of clarity – the Europe on Five Dollars a Day trip guide, her fondness for the blue shades of the Ektachrome slides used initially for photography. The photograph of the Caryatids in Athens was taken during those summer months and processed through the Polaroid Transfer method. 

—Autumn Baxter ‘25

 Carol Peachee, 1976 Graduate

Carol Peachee in Arch, Hollins Abroad Paris 1974

A portrait taken during a field trip during Hollins Abroad Paris, the photograph captures alumna Carol Peachee in an arch that she asked a classmate to take. In 2008, Peachee began experimenting with alternate methods of photography, including Polaroid transfer, a process that involves moving an image before it is developed on Instamatic film. By applying this process to the picture, Peachee creates a hazy, blurry image that seems to evoke a past memory, much like the ones created by countless Hollins alumnae during their study abroad experiences. 

—Ella Brindley ‘26