Instant photo, double exposure: a note «I’m tired of constantly fighting for my happiness» over a face held in two hands, on green.

Photography

Polarized

Instant photos of people holding handwritten notes

People write their truth on a piece of paper; each Polaroid layers the note over their portrait in a single double exposure.

Year: 2026
Role: Photography
Tools: Polaroid Now Generation 2, HP flatbed scanner (for the scans), Dazz Cam app (the tests at the end)
Context: Personal project, autumn 2026, ongoing

Statement

My most honest work so far. I asked people to write their truth on a piece of paper. For some it was a confession, for others a belief or a thought they hold onto. My only instruction was to be honest. Each Polaroid combines a person's portrait and their note in a single double exposure.

The overlap of exposures symbolises the connection between the person and their inner world that nobody else sees.

The last three frames are early tests made in the Dazz Cam app, before I moved to film.

Polaroid: a blonde woman in a leopard top behind a small note, in warm brown light.

I’m tired of my madness and I’m tired of this rotten world

Polaroid: a woman holding a note up beside her face in a dim room.

I wish I could go back before it’s inevitable

Polaroid: a woman holding a yellow note reading I don't feel REAL under a no-smoking sign.

I don’t feel real

Polaroid: a person in a doorway holding a sign reading I NEED TO BE BETTER AT BEING MYSELF.

I need to be better at being myself

Polaroid: a woman in tall grass at dusk holding a note reading To love and be loved with a heart.

To love and be loved

Instant photo, double exposure: a sign reading «FUCK» over a dark figure.

Fuck

Instant photo, double exposure: «There’s something wrong with me» over hands and torn paper.

There’s something wrong with me

Instant photo: «Be yourself» on a note among leaves, a face below.

Be yourself

Instant photo, double exposure: «I am afraid I will never be loved» over a person sitting in a cluttered room.

I am afraid I will never be loved

Instant photo, double exposure: «Missed opportunity» over a figure in warm light.

Missed opportunity

An early Polaroid test: Leo against tiles, a note over his face. — First Polaroid tests

Phone-app test: a «let me out» note layered over Leo, hands on his face, in pink light.

Phone-app test: «I’d never come back here. Sorry :c» layered over Leo, hands on his face.

Phone-app test: a note held in front of Leo’s face, square frame.

Dazz Cam tests

Credits

The last three images: Dazz Cam phone app (simulated film), not instant film
Influence: Gillian Wearing’s series “Signs that say what you want them to say and not Signs that say what someone else wants you to say”, 1992–93