The Ecclestone Grand Prix Heritage Polaroid Collection

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Ended:December 9th 2020, 12:00pm EST

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The Prize

The Ecclestone Grand Prix Heritage Collection is a story of passion! A collection of motor racing cars that individually ignite a fire in the heart of its curator, the former F1 supremo, Bernie Ecclestone. As a group, the racing cars become the most significant Grand Prix car collection in the world and for the very first time they have been photographed in their entirety to be showcased.

Bernie invited the Opus team to visit his collection just outside of London where the Grand Prix cars were photographed on the legendary giant Polaroid 20x24 camera by Opus photographer, Zenon Texeira. The spectacular Polaroids portraits are perfect to create a limited box set of photographic prints that celebrate Grand Prix racing in a way never attmpted before.

Polaroid built five of the giant cameras in 1976 at the height of instant film popularity. The worlds largest Polaroid cameras were built in the Polaroid workshop to showcase their latest film - the results were spectacular! Originally used to photograph the detail in oil paintings and tapestries, Polaroid then gave the camera to the most noted artists of the era in return for a print to live in the Polaroid archive. Andy Warhol was one such artist to use the camera and soon the camera itself was recognised as a landmark camera in the evolution of photography.

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The Cause

We are a charity that supports vulnerable, homeless, marginalised people and Veterans. We help them transform their lives, providing accommodation and helping them gain the skills, confidence and opportunities to live their lives independently.

We are driven by a passion to care for those that are overlooked, neglected, abandoned and made vulnerable by society, in a way that does not judge but rather offers hope and practical care for those who need it most.

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Alabaré is the largest provider of homes for Veterans outside of London, with 23 homes in eleven areas in the South, South West, and Wales. Alabaré must raise £815,000 to support the vulnerable and homeless Veterans gain the skills, opportunities and confidence to live transformed lives outside of the military community.

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