10 Jul This Instagram Account Is Calling Out Ridiculously Fake Camping Photos

If you’ve never gotten yourself into the depths of travel photography on Instagram, I suggest that you should do. Just check out hashtags like #exploremore or #hikingadventures and in a second you’ll be deep in an abyss of gorgeous landscape photos that often portray a tent set up dangerously close to a cliff or body of water. While we all sit and wonder at these astonishing photos, we rarely stop to imagine how they came about.

28-year-old Luisa Jeffery didn’t think about that either, until she went on a 21-day trip through the Grand Canyon with some friends. During the trip, one of her friends kept suggesting that they set up their tent in some crazy location “just for the photos”. Jeffery says she had not known that was a thing people did: “I was completely caught off guard and thought it was just the most ridiculous thing ever,” she told Field Mag. “But when we got back home I started noticing how much people really do do that, and I started looking at photos wondering if they were actually legit.”

And thus, Jeffery created an Instagram account aptly named @youdidnotsleepthere, in which she calls out travel bloggers for posting photos that suggest they slept in some precarious place, when they actually didn’t. With a biography stating that it’s “Celebrating Instagram’s most illogical campsites”, the account now has over 40 thousand followers. Jeffery’s main goal is to comedically point out the lack of transparency in these extremely popular Instagram posts, and reveal the general dishonest nature of life seen through our phones.

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