In Teju Cole’s article Take a Photo Here he discusses that as a result of tourism and social media, many of the photos that have/are taken at famous sites such as The Statue of Liberty and The Roman Forum have been rendered as being unoriginal.  In many cases these sites are set up in such a way that it guides the tourist onto a specific path and to a specific point of view and as a result of this, it creates for washed up and bland images that over time become overly photographed. Teju Cole explains this theory with a simple search on instagram of a particular Roman site in Italy and he explains that both parties should be at fault , the organizers and the photographers/tourists. In an attempt to be original, one becomes unaware that the view in which they’re photographing from and what they’re photographing exactly are not original. In addition, many of the photos that are taken and posted onto social media are/were taken on a mobile phone which again skews the uniqueness and originality

Teju Cole “Take a Photo Here”: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/27/magazine/take-a-photo-here.html