It reads like a normal vacation carousel – until you notice every slide is cut in half. The top is a selfie: you under a straw hat on a lounger, you with a coffee on the balcony, you fresh off a nap. The bottom is whatever you were looking at in that exact moment: the catamaran drifting past the water, the fruit bowl and the stack of cups on the tray, the resort path lined with palms. One thin line of text sits on the seam between them – “me + my pov” – and that’s the whole thing.

That’s the me + my pov trend: instead of one photo, each slide pairs a shot of you with a shot of your point of view, so the viewer sees you and then sees exactly what you saw. Stack a handful of those pairs and you get a photo dump that feels like flipping through someone’s actual memory of a place.

Creator @itsmikaylanicole set the tone with her “postcards from Cabo” set – eight slides, each one a selfie on top and the view underneath.

What is the me + my pov trend?

Three things make it:

  • A “me” shot – the top half is you, a selfie, a mirror shot, a candid. It doesn’t need to be posed; the sleepy, just-woke-up ones land just as well as the polished ones.
  • A “my pov” shot – the bottom half is what was in front of you at that moment: the ocean, the plate, the street, the sky. Shoot it from your own eyeline so it genuinely reads as your view.
  • The stacked split – the two photos are stacked vertically in one frame, you on top and your view on the bottom, with a small “me + my pov” caption on the line between them, kept identical on every slide.

In one sentence: pair a photo of you with a photo of what you were looking at, stacked top and bottom, one moment per slide.

Why it works

  • It shows the moment from both sides. A normal travel photo shows where you were; this shows you and what you saw, so each slide feels like standing where you stood.
  • It turns a camera roll into a diary. Everyone already has selfies and random view shots from a trip – pairing them is what makes a pile of photos read as one story.
  • The repetition is the aesthetic. The same split and the same caption on every slide is what makes the set feel intentional instead of like a dump of unrelated pics.
  • It’s calm, not loud. There’s no effect or punchline to wear out – it’s just you and your view, over and over, which is exactly why it plays well as a soft scroll.

How to make it in Picsart

Step 1: Pair your photos – a “me” and a “my pov” for each slide

Go through your camera roll and build pairs: for each moment, pick one photo of you and one photo of what was in front of you right then. The tighter the pair – the coffee you’re holding on top, the same balcony view below – the better it reads. Aim for five to eight pairs so the set has a rhythm.

Step 2: Stack each pair in Collage Maker

Open Picsart Collage Maker and choose a simple two-cell grid stacked vertically – one photo on top, one on the bottom. Drop your selfie into the top cell and your view into the bottom cell, then nudge each photo inside its cell so the good part is centered. Keep the divider thin and even so the two halves read as one frame.

Step 3: Add the “me + my pov” caption on the seam

Add a text layer, type “me + my pov” in lowercase, and set a thin, elegant serif font in white. Center it on the line where the two photos meet. Keep the exact same font, size, color, and placement on every slide – that consistency is what ties the whole set together. You can do this right in Collage Maker, or in Picsart Photo Editor if you want finer control over the text.

Step 4: Match the look and post the set

Run the same light filter or color grade across all your slides in Picsart Photo Editor so the set feels like one trip, then export each slide and post them together as a carousel. Caption it like a postcard – “postcards from [place]” – and let the pairs tell the story.

Variations worth trying

  • Postcards from [your city]. You don’t need a trip – do a “me + my pov” set from an ordinary day at home, the coffee shop, the park.
  • Me + my plate. A food-only version: a selfie on top, the dish in front of you on the bottom, one per meal.
  • Me + my view. Every slide is you and a window, balcony, or skyline – a set built entirely around what you looked out at.
  • A day, start to finish. Morning coffee to the night sky, one me-plus-pov pair per hour, as a single-day diary.
  • Horizontal split. Swap the stack for a side-by-side – you on the left, your pov on the right – for a different rhythm.

Show them what you saw, not just where you were.

The me + my pov trend turns a normal photo dump into a two-sided diary – you on top, your view on the bottom, one moment per slide, the same caption tying it all together.

Pick your pairs, stack them, and let people see the trip through your eyes.

Try it in Picsart Collage Maker.