This Instagram Account Shows How Instagram Photos Look the Same

@insta_repeat is a new Instagram account that reveals the “visual sameness” of photos being posted to Instagram. Each collage shows photos by unrelated photographers that look remarkably similar.

The account’s bio reads: “Déjà Vu Vibes 🌲 Wander. Roam. Replicate.” Each photo in each collage is tagged with the user that uploaded it.

Back of SUV in the wild with feet in frame

A post shared by Insta Repeat (@insta_repeat) on Jul 25, 2018 at 9:46pm PDT

Feet in front of Horseshoe Bend 🍁

A post shared by Insta Repeat (@insta_repeat) on Jul 21, 2018 at 12:19am PDT

Centered bridge

A post shared by Insta Repeat (@insta_repeat) on Jul 16, 2018 at 11:22pm PDT

Person centered rowing in canoe 🛶🛶PT. VII #canoesofinstagram

A post shared by Insta Repeat (@insta_repeat) on Jul 12, 2018 at 12:56am PDT

Person sitting alone in front of body of a lake 🙈

A post shared by Insta Repeat (@insta_repeat) on Jul 1, 2018 at 10:14pm PDT

Photoshelter reports that the account is the brainchild of a 27-year-old artist and filmmaker from Anchorage, Alaska, who’s choosing to remain anonymous.

Medium close up back of girls head

A post shared by Insta Repeat (@insta_repeat) on Jun 19, 2018 at 8:54pm PDT

Person standing in the middle of a centered road

A post shared by Insta Repeat (@insta_repeat) on Jun 15, 2018 at 10:10pm PDT

Person alone at night with a flashlight 🔦🔦🔦🔦🔦🔦🔦 PT.I

A post shared by Insta Repeat (@insta_repeat) on Jun 10, 2018 at 10:26am PDT

“There is a lot of mimicry everywhere in media, not just on Instagram,” the woman behind @insta_repeat tells Photoshelter. “A purpose of Insta_Repeat is to critique originality in media creation through the lens (pun intended) of this one ‘genre’ of Instagram photography accounts.”

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P.S. Photographer Oliver KMIA shared a similar commentary of Instagram travel photos through his viral video “Instravel”.