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Weekend Hashtag Project: #WHPmydailyroute

Weekend Hashtag Project is a series featuring designated themes and hashtags chosen by Instagram’s Community Team. For a chance to be featured on the Instagram blog, follow @instagram and look for a post announcing the weekend’s project every Friday.

The assignment this weekend is to make photos and videos along a route that you walk frequently. The goal is to capture moments of things that are so familiar that we pass by without considering them worthy of being photographed. Our inspiration for the challenge comes from Stephen Shore (@stephen.shore), a celebrated photographer famous for his pioneering use of color photography as an art form. Stephen has spent his career examining what it means to really look at the world, and has found that what we choose to see is as important as the subject itself. “We sometimes have filters in our minds about what makes a ‘good’ picture. Then we see the world through these filters,” says Stephen. “The aim of this assignment is to make more direct contact with the world and to see without these filters - to take the pictures we’ve learned not to take.”

Here are some tips to get you started with advice from Stephen:

• Follow a route or a walk you take regularly.
• Try to see this familiar route as if for the first time. “Imagine you are giving a friend from another city a silent, visual tour of your world,” suggest Stephen.
• Look for details of ordinary scenes that have a life of their own.
• Finally, keep in mind that what looks ordinary and unremarkable now will change over time. “Subjects that were overlooked yesterday, can become a source of meaning and metaphors today,” says Stephen.

PROJECT RULES: Please add the #WHPmydailyroute hashtag only to photos taken over this weekend and only submit your own photographs to the project. Any tagged image taken over the weekend is eligible to be featured Monday morning.

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