Photographer behind record-cracking Instagram egg comments on his art: "Egg is just an egg"
It is 2019 and our most prominent celebrity is now a humble egg. Having defeated Kylie Jenner’s Instagram record following a viral campaign to rack up a ridiculous number of likes, we now live beneath the shadow not only of powerful, rich humans, but of a simple stock photo of breakfast food, too.
Determined to learn more about the global icon, Insider has done us all the great good service of tracking down the artist responsible for bringing us the extremely powerful egg photo to hear what he thinks about all the eggcitement surrounding his work.
Serghei Platanov, who posted “eggs isolated on white background” on Shutterstock back in 2015, writes with incredible modesty of his contribution to humanity, telling Insider that his motivation was “ … to take a simple picture of an egg. For fun.”