At the moment the most popular type of photography among internet users is the selfie.
For the last two months, I surfed through some of the most popular social networks around the world. I looked at the faces of completely strange people. After two hours of surfing, I found that I could not even remember one face from the thousands. They merged into a single collage inside of my head.
During the last two months, I downloaded 100 selfies every day (in accordance with the policies of the websites there was no restriction on that). These were the "best"—offered to me by the networks.
Then, I manually merged these 100 pictures, layering them in a photo-editing program. I used the same level of transparency on each picture thus, every portrait was equal in the final collage.
The selfies very easily layered on each other. Each of the subjects, in trying to look uniquely magnificent in the lens of their phones were all posing in almost exactly the same way.
So I had a composite image of the above-average "selfier." An accumulation of our stereotyped ideas of what good-looking means. A portrait of the modern person—the Magnificent.
