For Christopher E. Manning the instant photograph is a ritual, a way to save a memory or a period of life. He began to see instant prints as fragments of tangible memory, but looking back on a Polaroid the moment was just the surface: there were feelings and images to be revealed or reflected upon with additional commentary, covering a vulnerability or amending memory with footnotes. Spanning a decade, the works are an autobiographical excavation of the self, interested in duality and fragmentary storytelling: truths and lies, light and dark, life, death and rebirth.