>>3641607I don't know, what would you define as the "spirit" of photography? That answer is different for everyone, so it seems a little hasty to try to cast an answer to your question, as the answer to my question is different for everyone.
That said, for me it would be social media. No, I'm not talking about the simple ability to share your images online, or to discover other people. That's great. I'm more concerned with how much social media influences people's work, what they shoot, why they shoot it, and what they post. They follow the "likes" and insta-fame, not what they really want to shoot deep down, kinda a long winded answer of what
>>3641613 said.
I wonder, if people woke up some day and there was no Flickr, no Instagram, no Facebook groups, no way to share work online at all. You could never reach a wide audience, you could never hashtag, most importantly you could never just post an image online and experience the endorphin hit of multiple likes. Would you still want to do photography? Would you still care about it at all?
>but anon, don't you care if other people like your workHonestly? Not really. I've gotten 'explored' on Flickr several times, I've posted stuff in Facebook photo groups and woken up the next morning to hundreds of 'likes'. The stuff I take that I usually like the most, isn't always the stuff other people seem to really like. It would be a shame if many years from now, I had a body of work consisting mainly of work a bunch of other people loved, that I didn't personally love. I mean, I'm the one who bought the camera, I'm the one that goes out and shoots the photos, so it makes sense that I'm looking after myself first. I am my own 'client', right?
