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Cities on Instagram: #people walking past walls

Credits: @lost.in.ldn

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.

“Aesthetically, there’s something really appealing about combining a wall, whether it be plain, colourful, covered in street art or a strong architectural structure, with a person in the foreground with a good stride.”

Larson, Naomi, “Side effect: why people walking past walls is an Instagram hit” The Guardian, available at: 

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/jul/06/side-effect-why-people-walking-past-walls-is-an-instagram-hit

Cities on instagram: cinema and city

Credits Instagram: @moloknee

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 ‘the location’ is a character in a movie – my favourite films tend to be the movies where that’s true,” he says. “Martin Scorsese and Woody Allen’s early films are very New York. Alexander Payne really loves Nebraska. John Hughes loves Chicago.

“It’s really more about the movies for me. It still puts a smile on my face to see a scene I’ve loved ‘come to life’.”

Hunt Elle (2018) “The location is a character’: where cinema meets the city”, The Guardian, available at:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/dec/27/the-location-is-a-character-where-cinema-meets-the-city