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| | | What do you think about "Instagram Explorers"? < on 10/23/2014 2:33 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | A new breed of "explorers" has been popping up lately. "Instagram Explorers". Kids who go out and take photo's and post them directly to Instagram, and a lot of them have grown in popularity in recent months. Probably the most well known group of Instagram Explorers is in NYC. This group includes people from Instagram like Heavy_Minds, Demidism, Night.Shift, 7thexpress, Humzadeas, 4th_Kind, and Black_Soap. All of their work is very similar looking, and is hard to tell the difference between their photo's. It seems that other cities might start getting larger communities of Insta Explorers soon as well. Now, not any explorer who posts to Instagram is an "Instagram Explorer", but these guys go out and take photo's specifically to post to Instagram. Here's a good quote I found about them: "There has long been a subculture of so-called “urban explorers” who have made a game of accessing off-limits places. But Deas and the other Instagrammers distinguish themselves from these mostly older, more cerebral trespassers. “They'll go to the top of the bridge and touch it and be like, Wow, this architecture!,” Deas says, a little dismissively. Urban explorers take photos mainly to document that they’ve been there, while for Deas the image is the whole point. The outlaw Instagrammers have more in common with graffiti artists, another subculture of underground creatives who make their work in the cracks of the urban landscape."
So, what do you think about these kinds of explorers? Do you like them? Do you like their work and the way they share it? Is this the direction Urban Exploration is heading, or is this just a fad?
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| Aran
Location: Kansas City Gender: Male Total Likes: 1848 likes
Huh. I guess covid made me a trendsetter.
| | | Re: What do you think about "Instagram Explorers"? < Reply # 18 on 10/23/2014 7:22 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Oh shit... the Mainstream is here! While I can see the appeal of letting others know that "Hey, this is cool, and I went there", it really is bad in the long term. Here's a couple of reasons.
Personal: -Everybody knows you as "that explorer dude" and want to know where the good places are. -You get a reputation, which makes it harder to stay inconspicuous. -Selfies= evidence of trespassing. Also, selfies don't equal art.
Community: -As the community becomes more well known, it becomes harder fore all of us to fly under the radar. We don't want a variation of the "no skateboarding" signs to be made for urbexing. -The cops begin to associate the community with "lol I'm so cool" kids. -Floods of bad pictures. -Vandals and scrappers have an easier time finding pristine locations.
Now, I think that if you know someone who might be truly interested, go ahead and take them on an explore. But instagramming for the fame just isn't worth it, in a pros and cons comparison.
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