#ArchinectMeets is a series of interviews with members of the architecture community that use Instagram as a creative medium. With the series, we ask some of Instagram’s architectural photographers, producers and curators about their relationship to the social media platform and how it has affected their practice.
Social media has undeniably affected the way we perceive, interpret and share opinions about architecture today. Using our own account, @Archinect, as a site for image curation and news content, we wanted to ask fellow Instagram users how they navigated the platform as well as their thoughts on social media's impact on architecture.
We spoke with @l_o00o_l, a photographer based in Munich. Given their anonymity, a biographical introduction is hardly in order. Rather, what should be emphasized is their ability to capture the surreal, the disjunctive and the unsettling in the built environment so as to stand out among the typically florescent images in one's Instagram feed.
What is your relationship to architecture?
After highschool, I wanted to study architecture but I didn’t get accepted. My aunt is an architect and I always envisioned being one myself. Nowadays I photograph buildings if i have a good composition but I dont go out to photograph architecture specifically.
How did @l_o00o_l begin?
I started my instagram account because I like taking pictures and I needed some platform to share my images. I already had an instagram account but it was more for skating.
How would you describe the type of photography you produce? What have you hoped to communicate about architecture or the built environment through your work on your Instagram?
I would describe my type of photography as ‘minimal street.’ Usually it’s the mundane from daily life. I guess I would like people to think I "have an eye" for it and hopefully they’ll get curious about what I might stumble upon next.
What photographers/image producers have you turned to for inspiration?
Rentalmagazine introduced me to this style of photography. also Andy Smith, William Eggleston, Ernst Haas, Bobby de Keyzer and Instagrammers like manvisual, spellelephant or chilligansisland who runs rentalmagaine as well.
Has Instagram (or social media in general) affected your views toward the profession?
Instagram definitly introduced me to this style of photography. I don’t know if i would have even photographed this much had I not seen these types of Photographers on instagram.
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