Photographing ourselves now (Kodak moments/Nokia moments).

For my project, I am choosing to cover 'Photographing ourselves now'.
I have chosen this as I feel it's the most relevent to society at the minute and to me in a sense.
Having experienced the back end of a 'Nokia Moment' portable photographing devices have always been a big thing for me. Although when I was younger I took to videoing more than Photography, capturing myself and my friends skating. Then one of my friends got a camera to start taking photographs on and once I had a go I was hooked, that was around 2011. Since then I have tried lot's of mediums such as digital, 35mm, polaroid, medium format, 5x4.
Having had a form of an iPhone for around 3 years and having instagram maybe just as long, I have posted 596 photographs and counting. Instagram is an application in which you share your photographs to possibly the world. It is like the modern day Kodak/Nokia moment, In where you take a photograph of your chosen subject there and then but with a few differences. Before even truely leaving your phone there is a few things; it is square format, unless you have an app inwhich you can frame your photographs. Once you have your chosen photograph you can edit your photo's, give it different 'filters' which are different effects, you can adjust saturation, contrast, brightness and a lot more. There is also a lot of third-party applications that can do this along with Apple iPhones having the effect on camera now as well. Once you have your photograph ready with your preferences, you can caption your photograph and publish it. On instagram you have to have a profile in which to post your photographs, you can follow people so you can see their photographs such as celebrities, your friends, artists, etc. and they can also follow you back to see your 'Feed'. When you post a photograph it goes to whoever follows you. I have 363 followers so as soon as I post a photograph it instantly reaches that many people, which is a sense is a lot, but you can reach more.
There is a thing called a hashtag, which if you hashtag a photograph e.g. #polaroid, you can click on that hashtag and it put's it in to a collective along with other photographs in which people have used the same hashtag, which could be only 50-100 or it could be millions who have used the hashtag, in turn reaching worldwide as well as whoever follows you.
Instagram is in a sense like a blog, documenting your day to day life but you can also put up videos and even your own work making it probably one of the best platforms to get your work out there (especially for us) without having to make print or hold an exhibition.