Author: Violeta Rodríguez Becerril
@thedoorsofnewyorkcity/ It is only natural to feel curious about what goes on behind the imposing, archaic or graffiti-ridden doors of our cities. Instagrammer Jonathan knows this feeling all too well. For the past year...
Amanda Taylor, a London-based English teacher, is behind the hashtag #peoplewalkingpastwalls. Since she started it five years ago, more than 90,000 photos of strangers walking city streets have been shared by Instagrammers across the world....
Ellingham, a creative based in Tokyo, came to photography while travelling through northern Japan shortly after it was devastated by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. Volunteering in the town of Otsuchi-Cho in Iwate, he...
On Instagram, Christopher Moloney shows us where cinema and the city meet. A writer and cinephile, he juxtaposes scenes from classic films with the places as they exist today. “There’s a cliche that often...
Hundreds of thousands of people have shared striking floor designs – sometimes from unusual places. From brightly patterned tiles to intricate mosaics, sometimes beauty is right under our feet. Instagrammers have shared photos of...
Tuesday 30 March 2021, 2-5pm GMT+1 (UK Summer Time) Via Microsoft Teams Birkbeck, University of London Organisers: Andrea Ballatore (Lecturer in Geographic Data Science, Dept. of Geography) Scott Rodgers (Senior Lecturer in Media Theory, Dept. of...
Abstract: From its beginnings, photography has documented the material and sociocultural dimensions of cities. The use of the flash, filters, and other analog camera accessories allowed for greater proximity to parts of nightlife. Today,...
Discussing the social uses of Instagram, this book shows how visuality is changing people’s perception of the world and their mediated lives, illustrating how the platform shapes new social relationships, marketing techniques, privacy and...