By Alexandra Klausner A 17-year-old Instagram photographer spends less time snapping selfies and more time taking breath-taking and often illegal views of New York City. Humza Deas, 17, spoke with New York Magazine about the growing popularity of urban exploration, the incriminating drive to take the perfect photograph of New York City, and about receiving death threats for speaking with the media. Deas and other Instagram outlaws, namely one named Last Suspect, compete against one another for followers and frighteningly gritty urban snapshots. Scroll down for video Urban explorer: Humza Deas is most known for climbing New York's bridges
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Humza Deas has 31,000 followers on Instagram
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He has only been climbing bridges and taking photos for about a year
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He once got out of being arrested by telling a cop he had a test the next morning
Deas publicly said that he didn’t change the flags but the stunt got @placeholder an interview nonetheless.