# Me Myself and I is part of a new three-part photography series called #Instagramania, reflecting on the impact of social media on ourselves and the world around us.
# Me Myself and I is focused on the global trend to take pictures of ourselves and post them on social media. Heavy make-up, the famous duck face and public posing make it fun to watch people taking selfies … and scary at the same time, when you see 3-year-old kids do so as well.
In today’s world places, people, products, etc. are classified, categorized and valued by if they are ‘instagramable’ …
For many, being ‘instragramable’ became a currency for how we are perceived and valued by others – friends and strangers alike. It became part of our self-expression, and who we aim or pretend to be. And, it feels hard to stay away from it as it implies that you don’t ‘exist’ if you don’t join in …
So, as Instagram is about filters, in this series heavy filtering is used to play with selfies that were randomly taken from Instagram – in a way for them to become abstract, surreal and ‘non-instagramable’ any more …
