“I returned to Shanghai from Berlin and was quarantined at home,” said Liu Shuwei an audacious young Chinese photographer best known for his portraits and nudes, who turned to Instagram during his weekslong confinement in February. Against the mandatory confinement imposed from Argentina to Zimbabwe, these photographers have taken to the platform with newfound vigor, plunging their imagery into the swim of the social feed. With museums and galleries largely shuttered around the world because of the coronavirus pandemic, Instagram has filled up these last weeks with “quarantine content”: snapshots of cramped apartments, pets surprised by their owners’ sudden ubiquity, uncannily deserted street scenes and cautious supermarket shoppers in beekeeping suits.īut sprinkled among Instagram’s more than 1 billion users, you’ll also find some of the world’s greatest fine art photographers - some shooting on iPhones or Android handsets, some relying on digital cameras and uploading manually. Here’s the bad news: You can only shoot from your apartment. Here’s the good news: You now have a sharper camera in your pocket than professional photographers could dream of 30 years ago.
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