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In 2020, as much of the world started adhering to new social distancing guidelines to combat the spread of a new strain of coronavirus, photographs started to circulate on social media that supposedly showed how nature was re-emerging in the absence of humans. One such image supposedly showed a flock of flamingos crowding a canal in Venice, Italy: This is not a genuine photograph. Although flamingos can be found in Italy, the above-displayed image is a digital artwork imagining flamingos swimming in the famous canals of Venice. This image was created by Kristina Makeeva, a digital artist who goes by the handle @hobopeeba on Instagram. This image was posted to that Instagram page on April 24, 2020, along with a caption identifying the image as art. Makeeva wrote: Art 2020 ▪️ when people stay at home - city is filled with other residents. While Makeeva labeled this image as Art, many people who viewed the image on Instagram were still curious if this was a real photograph. Makeeva responded to many of these commentators and informed them that no, this was not a real photograph: The Instagram page for @Hobopeeba is full of similarly fantastical images. The biography for this page also notes that Makeeva is a Photographer & cat & engineer-wizard from Moscow and a Modern converter from ordinary to magic. Interestingly, this image went viral as a similar, but real, scene played out in Mumbai. In mid-April 2020, an estimated 150,000 flamingos were spotted off the coast of Mumbai. Time magazine reported: Here's a photograph from Getty Images showing this large flock of flamingos in India:
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