But it was the shift in my relationship to photography that was the most striking. Nothing had changed about my iPhone camera, which I still had in my pocket at all times, but without the public venue of Instagram I had much less desire to take photos. The few photos I did take were different, too: they were images that I wanted to capture for myself, more often weirder or uglier than the established aesthetic of Instagram. I took fewer photos at parties and dinners and more of city streetscapes and my neighborhood dog park lit up in the dark, images that wouldn’t have read well in the app’s
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