VIDEO: What is an Instameet?

In Derby, a group of people gathered. They had never met, but they seemed to know each other. They began to walk through the city, taking and sharing photographs.

Derby was host to an Instameet, the physical creation of the remarkable online community that has grown, around the world, around a mutual love of photography.

BJP joined in to find out more…

See their photography with the hashtag #Formatmeet, or join the next one, in Derby tomorrow. Find out more here.

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Tom Seymour

Tom Seymour is an Associate Editor at The Art Newspaper and an Associate Lecturer at London College of Communication. His words have been published in The Guardian, The Observer, The New York Times, Financial Times, Wallpaper* and The Telegraph. He has won Writer of the Year and Specialist Writer of the year on three separate occassions at the PPA Awards for his work with The Royal Photographic Society.