#phillyhomeportrait Instagram tag presents Philly's ridiculously photogenic houses
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We suddenly really, really want our own home to have a lime green front door.
Philly home portrait by Instagram photographer @itsmekp
Search for the tag #phillyhomeportrait on Instagram, and it'll turn up 1,135 posts (at least this morning). The photos are similarly striking — simple but usually very colorful snapshots of the façades and front doors of rowhomes and other living spaces around the city. They're quite beautiful, though, and gracefully display how varying and intricate even the simplest Philly architecture can be.
From home details like high-contrast rainbow-colored shutters and doors to the graceful arch above a windowpane available to shoot, it's no surprise that Philly's most enterprising Instagram photographers would start this trend in street photography. We're so awash in homes while walking down Philadelphia streets (them being squashed together, dozens to a block, after all), it's easy to not really see their understated beauty. Here, it's impossible to miss.
I first saw some of the most eye-catching home photography at Metropolitan Gallery 250’s 250x250 Instagram photography exhibition in March, where one of the featured photographers, Billy Cress (@radiowar) focused primarily on this type of shot. He’s got the most posts with the tag, and it looks to me like he started the trend.
Here are some of our favorites (including one by City Paper's own editorial designer Jenni Betz, who 'grams @wayfancy):
@radiowar:
@wayfancy:
@katep629:
@emilyvish:
@itsmekp:
@urphillypal:
