“If eyes are the window to the soul, selfies are an insight into what we want to look like.”
Zing Tsjeng & Luis Kramer VICE UK
“I think, for our generation, it’s normal. When it comes to the older generation, they’re a little bit, what the hell is going on with these kids? They’re constantly taking images of themselves. It’s a little bit alien to them, but for us, it’s becoming normalised. That’s probably not a good thing.” SIDRAH, 29
Are you a gymfluencer or a pastel-pink VSCO girl? Are you a bougie London literary woman or a wellness freak? Settings and accessories matter – does the luxe restaurant bathroom indicate the size of your actual wallet, or is the choice purely aspirational? How deliberate is posing with a tiger in that Hinge profile pic? And how much does your self-portrait actually reflect who you are as a person?
To find out, Vice.com (UK) asked a bunch of people to show their favourite selfies of themselves.