Geraldine West - a girl from Cologne who created an entertaining project called Instagram vs. Reality. In his works (Instagram page) she compares her own glamorous photos with ordinary ones. In the first picture you can see the perfect portrait. On the second - the same composition, but closer to reality.
Geraldine takes photographs on classic Instagram topics. Traveling, eating salad, taking a bath, selecting outfits ... All these topics are reflected in the works of Geraldine. So what are these pictures?
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Glamorous morning vs ugly reality
A cup of coffee, flowers and a croissant ... All these are integral attributes of an “instagrammnogo" morning. But attentive viewers will be more critical of such a photo. “Hmm, it took this girl two hours to get ready for the shoot!” And they will be right. The image created by Geraldine West on the right unambiguously hints at the true state of things.
Elegant "dress" from a watermelon slice against a sausage
Glamor and real life are incompatible things. In the second photo, in addition to the sausage, this is indicated by the rubber slippers on Geraldine's legs.
Bathroom
“I would have time to shave my legs and brush my teeth. Yes, it would be nice to make a face mask as well, ”- these are usually the real thoughts that visit girls in the bathroom. The holiday of life depicted in the first photo? More likely an exception, than regularity.
On the platform
Fashionable clothes, high heels, lips "duck" ... Eeeh, I would like to dream that life really was like that. In reality, you have to rush at full speed in sneakers and trainings in order to catch somewhere. Yes, and keep the pug under the arm as it should. And then it will fall off the platform.
And now about the dogs
Actually, here he is a pug. To catch a good shot with an animal, you need to spend a lot of time. If you click a dog or any other animals in the first moment - you get something like the following ...
"I love diet food ...". Hmm, but does it smell like a lie?
There are hundreds of photos of girls in which they portray a sincere delight in the sight of a salad or other diet food. Sorry, but we will never believe that this leaf of lettuce may taste like a steak. Or hearty sushi. Or a bowl of hot dumplings with butter and sour cream. “Salad is not a steak, so guys, this is a fake,” thought Geraldine and made the next skit.
Or maybe a green salad is simply similar in its properties to a laughing gas? And therefore, from all this greenery do girls have such happy faces?
However, the photo of Geraldine exhaustively shows the real attitude to such food.
Water recreation
Separate topic. In the first photo, Geraldine depicts a charming geisha in a kimono. Instead of pedaling, she can just look around. Cold water and hordes of mosquitoes are not afraid of her.
The second photograph is more like the truth.
Beauty from Oktoberfest vs. An ordinary girl
The female sex also sometimes likes to indulge in beer. Well, if on Instagram in such cases the ladies usually look like charming girls from the Oktoberfest festival, then in real life things are completely different.
Holy of Holies - wardrobe
The perfect closet from Instagram in the first photo contrasts with the wardrobe in which chaos reigns.
Geraldine's photographs are, of course, very funny. But if you think about it, a German by her creativity highlights an important feature of modern society: people on the Web tend to be better than in life. But are we not thus losing ourselves and the opportunity to enjoy life — as it is? At least Geraldine with her sense of humor can be said with confidence: she has not lost such an ability. As well as the ability to irony over yourself.
Geraldine’s works show: don’t go headlong into the “instagram world”. Yes, reality is not always as beautiful as we would like. But when people (mostly women) are completely immersed in their fictional world, this is unlikely to make them happier. Indeed, deep down, everyone understands: such a life is just a fiction.
