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Day 10
The place of photography nowadays

Photography has evolved over the years. It was basically used for special events such as "the family portrait" or even "the child in his school uniform". But its use has been modernized, it is now considered as an art for some jobs but it has mostly become a daily routine. Today, people with a camera on their phone have an unfortunate tendency to take everything in front of them. Whether it is a bird flying above them or the pizza they are eating, the use of photography is no longer trivial. One of the most popular trends today is the selfie or the photo that will be the most "instagrammable" for social networks.

Since the creation of a front camera, the phenomenon of the selfie is the most used by the young people of our society and begins to touch the oldest now. The idea of ​​selfie is a new way to create memories and keep them directly on the phones. It is more advantageous, easier to use and companies as Snapchat understood the customer demand and created a huge business on this new trend.

Since the rise of social networks that is an integral part of our modern society, photography has taken an imposing place: most social networks are now dedicated to photography as Instagram or Facebook(at its beginnings). This tendency to show and share our life has become a daily routine and social networks are diversifying in relation to this phenomenon.

When you are wandering on your social networks as Instagram, you will see many photos of nice places, people drinking the famous coffee with drawings on the top or even the best foodporn of the city. These photographies are the most popular and this phenomenon is called the "instagrammable". 

The principle of the "instagrammable photo" is to go to a trendy place, shoot the place with the best frame or the plates that you just received before eating it. This trend is raging and jobs have been created (influencers, bloggers, trackers of the best adresses in the city) in relation to this new use.

The place of photography nowadays has totally evolved since its creation and became a daily routine action. The old photos album had been replaced by a huge amount of hard drive.

Places had been created for photos "made-for-instagram" with colors room, artistic actions...

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