In the past, people have looked at photos as a record of memory. The focus has been on the past tense. With Instagram, the focus is on the present tense.

I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and bald as a road. But memory is never like that. It makes hills of feeling in collapsed hours, a scene of enclosure made all precious by its frame.

Instagram was created because there was no single place dedicated to giving your mobile photos a place to live and to be seen.

Photos were seen as the most private type of content, and 'Instagram' really flipped that on its head and said photos can be really public.

I did not know who I was. But now, watching it all unfold — and having a past, a present and a future — I think what a little character I was. The character I am now, it's a good and seasoned woman. There's not so much vaudeville, but plenty of heart.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.