Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Follow Me

Nowadays, social media are becoming part of people's lives by changing ways people communicate. People no longer communicate with only who they know but also to whom they have never met. They share ideas and experiences with others through words and images and others can exchange thoughts through same ways.

Due to the characteristics of social media, a platform for free expression without the constrain of time and location, they are widely used by world travelers. A collaboration of social media and photography is Instagram. Instagram is listed as one of the most useful application for travelers because it can instantly add effects to your photos and make them look like taken by pros, and share them with your followers to update where you have been. Recently a series of pictures of a girl leading the photographer into different historical sites became popular on Intagram.

 
The photographer is Murad Osmann. He graduated as a civil engineer from Imperial College London, but later he started his own production company Hype Production. His girlfriend Natalia is a Russian journalist. He explained what inspired him,
The first photo happened accidentally in Barcelona when Natalia and Murad were on vacation. "Nataly was a bit annoyed that I was always taking pictures of everything, so she grabbed my hand and tried to pull me forward," he explained to The Daily Mail UK.
This group of photos brought him 50,000 followers on Instagram and many people start taking traveling pictures in the "follow me" style.


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