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Whilst I’m a massive fan of Instagram I do feel a bit weird when I see it being used for photojournalism. For instance the other day I saw that a journalist I follow on Twitter was using it to show images of an EDL demonstration he was covering. I feel it’s completely the wrong medium for something like that but there’s also a wider issue of recording historical events with what is essentially a crappy square photo with a filter on at poor resolution.

This is neatly summed up in a blog post by photographer Kenneth Jarecke noting on the lack of quality images during the recent storm in the US.

Link via Dave Morris.