Between 1995-96 the photographer Simon Leigh embarked on a photographic project using a Polaroid SX70 Land Camera.

Living alone at the time, he immersed himself in photography, shooting without discrimination; everything and anything that he felt moved to photograph: his own photographic prints, landscapes, flowers, people, self portraits, images of religious, iconic, political and famous figures including Lenin, Hitler, Mao, and Jesus taken from books, magazines or television. He used photography as a form of therapy, a kind of mania and a diversion; partly as a way of filling time but principally as a way of fulfilling the urge to express himself and to create order and meaning in an otherwise chaotic and isolated existence. After two years he stopped and never took another photograph in this way again. He put the results away for 15 years and showed only one person in that time, being so attached to them he wasn't ready to part with them. After re-discovering them in his attic all these years later he finally wants them to be seen.

This is a vast body of work with a huge variety and depth. Some of the images were manipulated by hand (it was possible to affect the developing of this type of film and physically move the image around before the chemicals could dry properly), some he coloured using marker pens, some were just shot normally. He broke two cameras in the process of making the images as he experimented; trying various techniques to influence the development of the film to create different effects.

The originals are one-off prints shot on type 778 Polaroid film; Like paintings, these images are unique, one-of-a-kind prints, each within its own frame. Additionally, this type of film is no longer made by Polaroid.

Each photo measures 105 mm by 90 mm, with an image size of 75 mm approx square.