Birds of Paradise or the vanishing of the ‘social’ in social media
23 april 2025
Since 2011, Sander Dekker has been photographing eccentrics around the world, not to portray them as ‘different’, but to highlight their authenticity and give them a platform. He finds them on social media. In 2011, when he first started The Social Media Project, that was still easy, but over time, the spontaneity and social aspect of social media have faded. “What I captured is fairly unique and was only possible during that specific time. Now it's harder to find people and ten years from now may be impossible.”
