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When photos were real

Those are photos back in 2010, time when I truly purely enjoyed art, fashion, and music. I bought my first iPhone3G in 2009. Instagram came out in 2010. I found those Polaroid photos in my old phone, edited by the first Instagram editing tools to post on my personal account. Addicted to capture the moments. 

Nowadays, everybody can be a “photographer” by using platforms with photoshop, Lightroom, apps, etc..  which opened possibilities of expanding boundaries of creativity and self-expression.

However, this also created commodification of life moments, the culture of photo consuming, and I am a part of them.

To me, photos are real when a photo projects a person or her/his life moments without editing. Not context, but all about content in photos. 


Here I get myself back to the original point, where only one time shooting and no editing on my laptop. Whenever I or friends felt I’m being me, asked them to take Polaroid photos. 
(My favorite shot is dancing with a black bear in Taiwan. : )

For those who are in their moments.