Robert Wilkes, 25, from Oxford, and Felipe Corrêa, 28, from Brazil, are both art historians. They met through Instagram
It was Felipe’s 19th-century photograph collection that first attracted Robert. Also, he adds: “He’s a very handsome guy.” They found each other’s profiles on Instagram in that quiet period between Christmas and the New Year bringing in 2017, and started following each other – Robert in Oxford, Felipe in Juiz de Fora in south-eastern Brazil, which is where they are when we talk. Both art historians, they would occasionally comment on each other’s posts. “There was a portrait of an ancestor of his, and also I thought he was very handsome,” says Felipe. Robert liked Felipe’s tattoos, “some of which are based on an artist I really like. I immediately thought, ‘Oh, he has a Gustave Doré tattoo.’ I saw we had quite a lot of mutual interests.”
A few months later, Robert made a comment on a “story” – the Instagram feature that allows people to make temporary posts – Felipe had put up about an evangelical Christian trying to convert him at his gym. “I thought about messaging you long before that, but I never wanted to seem presumptuous,” says Robert. The timing was perfect, says Felipe – he had just come out of a relationship. “If you had done it before I wouldn’t have talked to you really,” he says.
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