Has Instagram changed photography forever?
When, back in 2012, I found myself sitting in the Dorchester hotel one evening with Kevin Systrom, who was lolling deep in a whiskey-drinking competition with Jack White , I didn’t realise quite how important Mr Systrom was. Instagram, the app he’d created with Mike Krieger, had launched a couple of years before.
In the decade that followed Instagram’s launch, it has transformed the way we see ourselves and the way we communicate.reveals the lengths we’ll go to create photographic evidence of our daily lives that we can share with an unlimited digital audience. Instagram arguably forged the ‘attention economy’ that now dominates our culture wherein human behaviour – and the data that tracks it – is the most valuable resource on Earth.
The last ten years have seen a new generation of women photographers exploring ‘the female gaze’ and asking whether they can resist objectification by stepping behind the camera themselves. I’m not sure if this strategy is always successful (
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