Lachlan MacDowall is a writer, photographer and curator based in Melbourne. He is the author of Instafame: Graffiti and Street Art in the Instagram Era (2019) and, with Kylie Budge, Art after Instagram: Art Spaces, Audience, Aesthetics (2022). He is currently Director of the MIECAT Institute and with Miles Brown curates Flash Forward, a program of art and music commissions (flash-fwd.com).