Marco Secchi4d ago

Instagram just untied your grid from the calendar.

As of this week you can reorder your posts into any arrangement, regardless of when you published them. Most coverage is treating this as a small feature. For anyone who uses Instagram as a working portfolio, it is bigger than that.

It splits two things that used to be one: your timeline (when you posted) and your portfolio (the order people see). For the first time, the first impression on your profile is a deliberate choice rather than an accident of chronology.

In my latest piece I break down how to use it as both craft and business: how to sequence the first nine, how to keep tonal flow together when the work is mostly black and white, and why the grid is the top of your funnel for clients and bookings.

#photography #photographybusiness #portfolio #editorialphotography

https://marcosecchi.substack.com/p/your-instagram-grid-is-a-gallery

How to Reorder Your Instagram Grid: A Photographer's Guide

Instagram now lets you reorder your grid. How photographers should sequence the first nine to turn a feed into a portfolio that books work

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