How Three Photographers Use Instagram to Share and Inform Their Work

1. Gueorgui Pinkhassov

“Instagram is a showcase. You engage an interested public with your latest success—or not. You rise, you fall. This excites me, and at the same time disciplines me.”

Madrid, 2016.
(Photo: Gueorgui Pinkhassov)

Japan, 2015.
(Photo: Gueorgui Pinkhassov)

Barcelona, 2017.
(Photo: Gueorgui Pinkhassov)

Korea, 2015.
(Photo: Gueorgui Pinkhassov)

“The advantage of Instagram is the ability to directly connect with your audience, and to build conversations around your work. I have used it in that way as I have traveled across the U.S. for my project The Geography of Poverty.”

A cattle auction in Alturas, California, 2016.
(Photo: Matt Black)

A fence post in Allensworth, California, 2014.
(Photo: Matt Black)

Snowfall in Flint, Michigan, 2016.
(Photo: Matt Black)

A ranch house in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, 2017.
(Photo: Matt Black)

3. Alec Soth

“Social media platforms like Instagram shift the role of photography from documentation to conversation. I use Instagram to explore that shift, as well as to share pictures of my dog.”