Most people use Instagram to share their photographs.

Nhuri Bashir used it to help him create.

The 31-year-old’s photography exhibit is now on display at the Bermuda Society of Arts, City Hall.

It’s called All Squared, largely because it was designed to look like photos on Instagram, an online photo sharing and social network platform.

“I was inspired by a trip I took to a studio in Miami called The Instagramers Gallery,” he said. “They had all of this Instagram square photography on the walls. I wanted to replicate that connection between the online world, where most people never get stuff printed, and put it into physical form.”

Because it can be expensive to print out tons of photos, Mr Bashir had to be creative.

He used packing crates to frame many of his larger portraits.

“I’m not the richest person in the world,” he said, “so I was looking for ways to save money. I thought it would be interesting to take an industrial approach to the frames and use things that people would normally throw away.”

Mr Bashir has no formal training in photography. He has learned by watching more experienced friends, and through YouTube tutorials.

The exhibition is a kind of coming out for Mr Bashir, who is better known for his videography work.

His company Burnt House Hill Productions made the popular Happy (Bermuda) video and tourism campaign video Why I Love Bermuda. He’s also taken beautiful photographs of Bermuda and its people which he’s shared on Instagram. He has almost 800 followers. “I have been doing photography, seriously, for the last three or four years,” he said. “With this show the focus has been on portraiture. My online profile on Instagram is mostly sunsets and scenic Bermuda. I wanted to show a variation in the type of photography that I do.”

Some of the portraits included were shot during film work.

“While we were out working, and interviewing people, I would take photos of people with awesome faces to become part of our collective story,” he said. His hope is that people will be inspired by his work. “I hope that people look at each picture and then try to figure out where it is, who it is, and gaze around,” he said. “I hope this one holds people for a bit of time.”

Mr Bashir’s studio, Into Bermuda, is located in the Somers Building on Front Street.

His exhibition runs until February 17. Visit www.bsoa.bm or instagram.com/nhuribashir.