With billions of users across Instagram, TikTok and beyond, you might think every good social media idea had already been taken. But sometimes an account pops up with such an original premise, you can’t help yourself from scrolling. Right now, it’s @gettyimagesfanclub, an Instagram page filled with long-lost runway moments and celebrity encounters pulled from the archives of photo agency Getty Images. Think Karl Lagerfeld mixing cocktails behind the bar at a fashion week party in 2002 or Ashley Olsen at dinner with Gossip Girl’s Taylor Momsen in 2008. For Saul Pereira, the enigmatic Australian-based creator of the account, what started out as an escapist passion project is now becoming a lot more than just a hobby.
“I used to work in a boring office job in the city and got made redundant at the end of covid.
