>>2949526>>2949538Basically this. It's statistically unlikely that your work will ever be present enough to gain any sort of recognition due to the sheer volume of people and content available on the platform. The best you can do is put in a lot of effort to attract as much attention as possible and hope from there.
1: Post frequently. If it isn't your personal Instagram account and none of your friends follow it then you should be posting four times a week to once a day. Make sure that the work is consistently good, it doesn't need to be a masterpiece every time but you cannot oscillate between pretty good and garbage.
2: Follow and like everything. For a lot of popular photography accounts (barring those people who are regularly featured on something like NatGeo) you will see that they follow a thousand or more accounts (or did at some point). This is because the more accounts they follow in a specific content region the more likely it is that they will show up on your explore and the explore of other people who follow similar accounts. Likewise those accounts like literally everything. Part of building an account is recognition and some of what you have to do is to just get your name out there. Even if you don't like a picture you see in explore you should like it because you do not want to discount the potential for one person to look at your work.
3: Utilize hubs. Tag your images with the hashtag or @ of daily content hubs. These are generally the best way to get noticed quickly. Make sure that you are tagging the relevant hubs and not just a wide swathe (IE: Don't tag an architecture hub if it's a portrait) otherwise your posts may never be considered by that hub.
If you do this and more for long enough you have a tiny chance that you will receive some recognition purely through instagram. Your work won't be respected and it will hardly endear itself to anyone but you will be popular. The best way at the end of the day is work your ass off.
