The UK’s First Instagram Exhibit
Next month sees images from the photo-sharing social network Instagram being brought to life in a first of its kind exhibition, ‘My World Shared’. Organised by @IGersLondon,30 participants will be displaying a selection of images posted on Instagram at the East Gallery, Brick Lane, from 22-23 October.
Barely a year old, Instagram allows iPhone users to post and share photos with a wider community. At nine million plus members, with an Android application in the pipeline, Instagram is showing a faster growth rate than Twitter or Foursquare during the same period of their development.
Since its creation in March 2011, @IGersLondon has grown into a vibrant community of people from various backgrounds, brought together by the love of photography on their iPhones. The group organises regular ‘photowalks’ and social events as well as supporting online communities in Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
@IGersLondon is part of the Instagramers community, created by Instagram user @philgonzalez in January 2011. Now spanning 100+ cities worldwide, the Instagramer community and website provides a forum by which users can learn best practices, tips and techniques around the application.
Other organisations supporting the exhibition include social media agency ‘Rabbit’,
Splashlime - a start-up company that provides iPhone app development, digital photography and web design to SMEs.
VNA - is a UK-based independent quarterly magazine that documents the street art and graffiti scene. Launched in 2006, VNA tracks everything that’s going on in the scene from art on the streets through to gallery shows and events that bring together artists from around the world.
If you are a blogger or member of the press interested in attending the preview on the 21st, please contact hello@theabbitagency.com
If you are unable to come on the day you can still be part of the My World Shared exhibit experience by following the event hashtag #myworldshared and @igerslondon on Instagram and Twitter.
Contact:
For more information, invitations, interviews and image requests please contact: Bridey Lipscombe, Cat Turner or Zoë Baker at The Rabbit Agency
hello@therabbitagency.com 07969 785 379
Notes to editors:
Instagram Link: http://instagram.com/
Instagram has been up and running for 11 months now, the app launched in October 2010 and its user base has been growing at an incredible rate ever since with eight million users, 15 photos shared every second and 1.3 million photos shared every day. It has now shared 150 its millionth uploaded photo. Instagram a typical photo filter app à la Hipstamatic or Camera Bag. What sets it apart is a helping of social-networking integration. Users can easily share their Instagram photos on popular services like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Foursquare and Tumblr. The app is only available to iPhone users currently but plans to go Android are in the pipeline for 2012.
Kevin Systrom, the CEO of Instagram, recently commented on the Instagram Community and Instagramers saying ‘there’s this large network underneath where people can connect and following inspiring photographers and friends around the world’.
The Instagramers community Link: www.instagramers.com
Instagramers is the one and only blog around the Instagram photo sharing app all over the world. The blog was launched in January 16, 2011 by Instagram user @philgonzalez, conscientious that it was important to create a place where users could learn best practises and tips around the app itself. Instagramers.com became soon a useful ‘first stop’ for any user interested in optimizing their use of the Instagram app. From how to start, to chose your nickname, how to use hashtags and of course how to become popular in this famous photography social network. There are spotlights on different photography techniques and interviews with highlighted photographers as well as articles about photography-related apps. After the big success of the blog, Phil started to promote the brand as a corporate brand, for all the people that wanted to create local Instagram Fan group meetings. Soon groups started to sprout all over the planet and local Igers Groups (as they are known), started arranging meetings, photo exhibitions, photowalks, contests and using this application in a new way not only to democratize the photography, but also a way to meet people with the same sensibilities and interests.
