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Instagram @music’s Monthly Hashtag Project: #MHPmusicmuse

Monthly 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 @music and look for a post announcing this month’s project.

The goal this month is to make portraits of the people in your life who inspire you musically. Examples include everyone from a talented musician to a friend you share songs and playlists with.

Our project takes inspiration from Erin Margaret Alison Rambo, aka Rambo (@rambo), a 29-year-old photographer based in Fort Worth, Texas. Rambo says the goal of her photography is to share people’s stories, like she does with her best friend, soul singer Leon Bridges.

“Photography can work like music works. It doesn’t always need to be these clean, precise images,” says Rambo. “You have to learn how to pour through a lens instead of a guitar. That’s what made me and Leon work so well — I treat photography the way he treats music. We’re both after the same thing.”

Some tips to get you started:

• Try to make more candid portraits that capture your subject in a natural moment. “I take portraits by going and doing things together,” says Rambo. “Like, let’s explore the same place and then when you lean against that window in that beautiful light all I’m going to do is tell you to stay still.”
• Get to know more about your subject and their music before taking their portrait. “With your camera, go up to someone and have a conversation. Seek human connection first,” says Rambo. “When I feel like we’re connecting, we’ll take pictures then.”
• Experiment with your photography, and look to make the most honest images possible. “If everyone is honest in photography, then everyone should be able to take the same picture from the same angle and it all comes out differently,” says Rambo.

Project Rules: Please add the #MHPmusicmuse hashtag only to photos taken this month and only submit your own. Any tagged image taken this month is eligible to be featured. Finally, please respect an artist’s wishes if they ask not to be photographed.

by via Instagram Blog