The Social Landscape

2022-Ongoing

We live in a time where "everyone is a photographer".

Phones and other portable devices have facilitated the act of taking a picture.

This has oversaturated our experience with imagery, and in turn it seems

“photography has lost the value it once had”.

BUT, has photography really lost its value?

To answer this question

I decided to focus my attention on the photos

that people are still creating and sharing themselves on social media.

I used instagram to gather my imagery because it is one of THE most popular social media app

that was created for the purpose of sharing images with others. I went to the curated feeds of popular geotagged locations

and screenshotted users posts to later digitally collage them into a group photo using the visual information

they provided as a guide to the subjects placement within the space, almost like completing a puzzle.

Since everyone is a photographer,

what is their practice or method of picture making AND what does it show of the individual and essentially our humanity?