Instagram used to be a photographer's playground. Sadly, those days are long gone. The platform that once celebrated photography now treats our carefully composed images like an inconvenient interruption between Reels of people dancing and trending audio clips.
The algorithm has decided that still photography is dead weight, burying our work under an avalanche of short-form video content and AI-generated motivational quotes. As a result, engagement has plummeted, reach is abysmal, and the few people who do see our posts are too busy scrolling to actually look.
