A Guy Put Tinder And LinkedIn Photos Side By Side And Showed How We Sell Ourselves

Any time we post something on social media, we are putting our best foot forward. I don’t know about you, but for every selfie I post, there are at least 57 other versions of it now in the trash on my phone. I wanna look good! And I have to get above those 11 likes, ya know? 

Of course, the pictures I put on my Instagram are much different than the ones I post on Facebook and even more different from the one I put on LinkedIn, but they’re all pictures of me, right? 

Well, this is a question that Danish artist Dries Depoorter hopes to tackle in his most recent project. His thesis for the contemporary art installation really focuses on two questions: how do we present ourselves and how much information can we learn about someone based on their profiles?

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Social media is literally everything these days. 

I know many of us like to think that isn’t the case, but maybe it’s time we admit to ourselves that we are suckers for our various profiles. Don’t you agree? Here is an interesting thought — do we come across as different people on our different profiles? Belgian artist, Dries Depoorter, thinks yes and with his project, Tinder In, he has set out to prove so. 

Each picture in the series comes from two places. 

The picture on the left comes from the subject’s LinkedIn profile and the picture on the right comes from their Tinder. 

Depoorter states that he thought up the project while considering privacy. 

In an interview with The Curator’s Project he says, “My work for the last couple of years has mostly been about privacy, and what it means for young people.””I kinda feel guilty about this project, but on the other hand: these photos are publicly available. It just gets weird when you put them next to each other.”