Mobile uploads

I’m spending more time shooting, reading and playing with my iPhone then with my Macbook (yes, sometimes I work too! :)) and I was considering how I’ve changed my opinion in these years about software, hardware, art and communication-wow! lots of changes lately. I’ve always had the idea that the beauty is mostly in process of doing something rather then in results. It took me years to let go of photo films (well, sometimes I still have the pleasure) and consider Photoshop as part of my photography. Catching the moment with my camera is already a great job for me (hey! I’m not a pro) and since I’m using a camera phone I take very different pictures. At the beginning I thought I would never publish nor share them because they were so different from “my way” of taking pictures (and I’m not talking about technique), but I realized later their interesting aspects and their power: in their simplicity they are truly representing what I’ve seen and what I’ve felt about the situation or atmosphere.

It’s about being smartly fast or not be at all!

So I decided to go further and seek for other people using camera phone as their photographic tool for projects and work. There are so many with so cool projects! Just to name few of them: David Hockney, Dennis Dunleavy, Matt Bango. On the other side, there are many who don’t consider the camera phone as tool to take serious. I think this new approach is an inevitable way to break the conventional boundaries of mobile devices photography and show to people many different ways to take pictures.

I recently organized with llot creative network the iPhone art photography open contest aiming to promote research results and stimulate further interest in new media and social networking in relation to art and photography. The project in less then a week has collected many pictures and the participants have responded very well with discussion about post production, editing and software (Apps) used in their arts.

I also want to share some pictures made with iPhone and edited with MoreLomo App. Nothing special, but made and uploaded (on flickr) with the blink of an eye.