ECHO×INSTANT
Fuji Instax. Polaroid. In-camera techniques only. No digital manipulation at any stage.
Analog only — the irreversible frameSample archive — 2024. 29 frames across Berlin, Hamburg, Rome, Naples, Milan, Istanbul. A small selection from the ongoing archive. For print inquiries or exhibition interest, see Contact.
29 frames shown
Beyond the ongoing ECHO×INSTANT archive, the practice organizes itself into longer-duration projects — each with its own formal constraints, conceptual framework, and exhibition life.
Each project treats the instant film frame not as snapshot but as committed act — irreversible, analog, once.
Double & triple exposure · Instant film · Berlin
Berlin has never tried to hide its scars. Neither does this work. Through double and triple exposures on instant film, human faces and city surfaces fold into one another — weathered skin finding its echo in flaking concrete, sharp eyes mirroring glass edges. Not documentary. Not architecture photography. Something in between that neither genre could hold alone.
Instant film portraiture · Berlin dogs
A dog in a puffer jacket sitting outside a EuroShop with the patience of a philosopher. Berlin dogs, shot as serious portrait subjects, given the full weight of the instant film frame. They carry the energy of the city better than any human could — total indifference, absolute presence, answering to nobody. The purest thing about this place.
Instant film · Portrait · Audio · Multi-media
The word connoisseur was built to keep certain people out. This project breaks the door down. Visceral, excessive, deliberately provocative close-up instant photography that gives fast food culture the visual reverence of fine art portraiture. Between the photographs, viewers put on headphones and hear the subjects speak — in their own words, with their own expertise, about what they know and why it matters. The camera never judges. It just looks.
Instant film · Visual diary · Neukölln, Berlin
Five years of living in Neukölln left a mark. Not a tourist's portrait of a famous neighborhood — a visual diary built from the inside, street by street, face by face, moment by unremarkable moment that turns out to be anything but. The project that formed the eye behind everything ECHOx does: the belief that Monday, seen correctly, contains the entire world.
Dual-photographer · Instant film · Ten diptychs
Two photographers. Two completely opposing visual languages. The same subjects. The same locations. One sees softness, the romantic ideal of attraction. The other sees rawness, desire without apology. Amor and Eros are not opposites — they are two aspects of the same force, rarely shown side by side with equal honesty. Ten diptychs. One exhibition. The visitor stands in the gap between them and has to decide what they believe.
Instant film · Documentary portrait · One year
Three or four people in Berlin who have chosen to live as vampires. Not the mythology — the life. The dentist appointment. The summer problem. The wardrobe. Documented across a full year, through all four seasons, on instant film. No mockery. No sensationalism. Just the sustained, serious attention of a photographer who believes that the collision between an extreme identity and an ordinary Tuesday is one of the most honest places a portrait can live.
Instant film · Portrait · Dual study
There is a face that lovers make when they turn to the person they adore while telling the story of how they fell in love. Impossible to perform, identical across age and gender. This project exists to catch that face on instant film — and then: the other side. The divorce party where a woman mounted her wedding dress on a wooden cross on a beach and burned it with a flamethrower while her friends cheered. That too is love. Finally honest about what it became.
Instant film · Istanbul · Berlin · Barcelona · Stockholm
Everyone has taken this cab ride. The hour between the night and wherever you're going next. The city smearing past the window in overexposed light. Slightly unmoored, completely alive. Collected across cities — the interior of a taxi at 2am becomes a portrait not of a place but of a feeling. Universal, fleeting, and until now, undocumented.
Instant film · Archive footage · Interview · Berlin
They were everywhere once. Being a punk in the DDR wasn't a lifestyle choice — it was a political act. The Stasi watched them, interrogated them, classified them as threats to the state. The mohawk was genuinely dangerous. This project is part elegy, part detective work. Old DDR footage. Interviews with the people who were there — the old man showing you a photograph of himself at nineteen, sitting next to it at seventy. And then the question that drives everything: where did the punk impulse go?
ECHO×INSTANT is analog-only instant film photography — Fuji Instax and Polaroid, in-camera techniques, no digital manipulation at any stage.
The irreversibility is not a constraint. It is the point. Each frame exists once, exactly as taken. The chemical process completes itself without permission. What emerges is not corrected, filtered, or reconsidered.
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