Alex Cameron has made a name for himself with performative records that blend elements of humour and darkness through the character of a sleazy pseudo-rock star over an infectiously catchy soundtrack of '80s synths and sweeping saxophones courtesy of his best pal and "business partner" Roy Molloy.

Cameron has been documenting his life and tours over the last few years through his passion for analogue photography, first using disposable cameras included on his rider, and over the last twelve months, transitioning into Polaroid photography.

I’m curious to know whether photography is a hobby he’s always enjoyed or whether it surfaced from having downtime when travelling between shows on tour. “Photography’s something that I’ve always enjoyed," he says. "I’m just drawn towards it, I guess it’s a natural kind of inclination of mine to take photographs. My father took a lot of film photographs and I was always around a lot of film cameras as a kid. It’s probably the one thing I’ve taken from my family – it’s something that I guess I’ve inherited in a way.”

With Polaroids bridging the gap between the satisfying instantaneousness of iPhone photography with the aesthetics of film photography, it’s no wonder the format has become so popular once again in the last few years. “Don’t get me wrong, I’m out for those likes, baby, but any excuse for me to look away from my phone and I’ll take it.

I’m too impatient for 35mm or medium format and I can’t fathom clicking a button and not getting to see the result. I love the frames, especially the Spectra type that I use. Essentially all I’m doing with these photographs is finding the frame - trying to find the shapes and figures that fit in a pleasing way, but it calms me.”

"This set of photographs really does feel like much more than just memories, I feel like they’re telling their own stories forwards."

“When we first started hanging out, my girlfriend [actress and artist Jemima Kirke] took me through a whole box of thousands of Polaroids that she has and that kind of retriggered my interest in photography because I’d been on the road for so long and didn’t have a camera. We were just kind of getting to know one another and she showed me these photographs – some from years ago and some recent - and I was just amazed at how you could have these instant memories. Some of them were really artful and emotional, some of them were really sexualized and others were really classic and pretty.”

What sets Cameron’s music apart is his talent for storytelling, which is something he finds reflected through his photography, to the point where his photos have begun to play a part within his songwriting process. “I like to make the most of having a moment and I have hundreds of these things now. It serves as a really engaging thing away from music for me, which at the same time helps me write songs so it’s becoming part of the process for me. This set of photographs really does feel like much more than just memories, I feel like they’re telling their own stories forwards. I think they’re going to end up carrying me forwards instead of dragging me back.“