"What struck me and attracted me to these unclaimed photographs was that they were of people performing their best selves for the camera. And we will never know who their imagined audience might have been. They made my heart ache. How melancholic it is to commission an image that becomes orphaned. These images are orphans."
– Terry Kurgan

Invited practitioners join Khanya Mashabela in conversation, tracing the role of instant photography in their respective practices.