Here's our pitch.
Being featured on Analog Aesthetics isn't about follower counts or engagement metrics. It's about getting your work in front of people who actually care about film photography and having it exist somewhere permanent, searchable and credible.
Permanent Archive
Your work lives here indefinitely. No algorithm decides when people see it. No feed buries it. It's there, permanently indexed and accessible.
Search Rankings
When someone searches your name, your feature shows up in Google (often ranking top 5 within 24-48 hours). We've even seen our features outrank social media profiles.
Portfolio Credibility
Being featured in a curated publication carries weight that follower counts don't. When pitching clients or galleries, you can point to a professional feature with proper attribution.
Real Distribution
Your work gets distributed through Pinterest, Google Discover and organic search. We're building traffic through actual discovery channels, not social vanity metrics.
Merit Only
We don't care about your follower count or engagement rate. If you shoot quality film photography, that's enough. No hashtag strategy or feed curation needed.
Full Attribution
Every feature includes proper credit, links to your portfolio(s) and context for your work. We're not scraping content; we're a publication that respects photographers.
Why not Instagram?
How many of your followers are real people? How many are bots and ghosts who haven't opened the app in years? Even legitimate fans rarely see your work thanks to algorithmic suppression. Stories reach 5-10% of your audience at best. Links get ignored. Engagement decays over time regardless of what you do and how much effort you put into your online presence. Instagram isn't a portfolio or a discovery platform, it's a vanity metric treadmill that benefits nobody except Meta.
Algorithm Hostage
Instagram controls if/when anyone sees your work. You're renting visibility, not owning it. One algorithm change and your reach tanks overnight.
Vanity Theater
Likes and follows don't translate to portfolio credibility. A prospective client Google-ing your name finds Instagram noise, not curated professional work with proper context.
Content Graveyard
Your best work gets buried in 24 hours. No permanence, no indexing, no long-tail discovery. It's a feed, not an archive.
Oh, and the User Experience Is Garbage
Between the algorithmic force-feeding of Reels nobody asked for, auto-playing music on photos that should speak for themselves and every third scroll interrupted by ads selling dropshipped junk, Instagram has become hostile to anyone trying to actually look at photography.