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iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #11 – Wayne Greer

Wayne Greer is an iPhone photographer with a strong sense of places and a deep fascination for the landscape. Mobile photography is a relatively new discovery for him, but even without any photographic background, Greer’s work is rich, eye-catching and has the power to immediately draw the viewer in. “I bought my first iPhone last October,” Greer tells us, “Other than a few snapshots here and there, I really didn’t start using apps to edit photos until March of this year.” When he’s asked how his interest in mobile photography started, he simply replies, “Just by chance, I came across some photos by Gianluca Ricoveri. I was really taken with how beautiful they were and amazed that they were done with an iPhone.”

Like Ricoveri’s work, which we have covered earlier this year, Wayne Greer’s images are a tribute to the timeless beauty of nature, the kind of nature however that is closest to man’s heart. Continue reading

iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #10 – Tamás Andok

I started following the photography of Tamás Andok years ago, when he was mainly shooting analogue and the iPhone wasn’t the huge phenomenon it is now.

Differently from a number of iPhoneographers who adapted their style to mobile photography, Budapest-based Tamás went the opposite way, having the medium meet his personal vision. The transition was, to an extent, accidental, and it was back then dictated by practical reasons. As he recalls, “After my good old Fuji Finepix digital camera died I used analogue only, but after a time it was too expensive. My iPhone was always in my pocket, so I gave it a chance.” Andok explains how the potential of a mobile camera as a creative instrument had to be discovered little by little before he could put it to use. “It wasn’t a conscious decision,” he adds, “I got an iPhone for my birthday but for a long time I didn’t think about it as a photography tool.”
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iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #9 – Mike Roberts

Mike Roberts is an iPhoneographer who is mostly known under the moniker of Photomikro, an alias that in a way sums up not only Robert’s real name and his identity with it, but also his attention for the imperceptible and overlooked in every day’s life experiences and moods. Roberts’ photos are focused on cryptic absence and encompass a disparateness of genres and subjects; he often depicts scenes taken from places that seem familiar or actions that look habitual and then filters them through a dramatic emotional lens. Roberts’ photos seem to speak mainly about solitude and individualism, with lights and shadows that are as important as characters as are the faces, the inanimate objects and the forgotten places. To reinforce this sense of collected solitude, Roberts mostly relies on monochrome.

Of his own style Photomikro says, “I tend to create dark and contrasty monotone images for the most part. Each image will convey its own mood but I hope to grab a viewer’s attention somehow and invoke some type of emotion.” Continue reading

iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #8 – Maarten Oortwijn

The works of Maarten Oortwijn are an eclectic mix of drawing and photography, something often developing in singular directions and belonging to collage territory. Oortwijn’s mobile production is a significant part of his portfolio, but he is one of these people who are still more than eager to declare everlasting love for analog painting and photography. Even if these media are currently considered “dead” by many artists and photographers and in spite of the many difficulties aficionados encounter frequently — in retrieving films and specialty items, for example — analog is enjoying a renewed popularity among members of small but dedicated communities. Curiously enough, some of the most proficient mobile artists are also fervent analog enthusiasts.

Speaking of traditional media, Oortwijn remembers how his artistic endeavors date back to his early childhood, when he discovered one of his greatest loves: the classic ballpoint pen. Continue reading

iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #7 – Tuba Korhan

Tuba Korhan is an interior designer based in Ankara, Turkey. Besides working in design, Korhan is an iPhone artist and photographer. Tuba’s images are extremely fascinating in the way they blend together timeless suggestions and themes, such as the power and importance of imagination, with delicate color palettes, in graceful and pensive atmospheres with a touch of the surreal fairy tale to them.

Korhan’s passion for iPhone’s expressive potential was awakened by observing the work of other photographers. Recalling her beginnings in iPhoneography, she says, “When I discovered some mobile photographers on Instagram and their admirable photos and images in the summer of 2011: that was the moment I began shooting and editing in the way I am doing now.” Continue reading

iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #6 – Jacqueline Gaines

Jacqueline Gaines is an artist and iPhoneographer also going by the moniker of JQ. Gaines worked for a long time as a traditional artist with a specific interest in drawing and design, but was forced to give her profession up for a time because of other pressing life commitments. However, since she started using her iDevices, she managed to find a proper space to cultivate her love for mobile photography.

Window Shopping © JQ Gaines — Window Shopping (13) © JQ Gaines

“My formal art education and work experience is in drawing, book arts and textiles. So my studio is wrought with lots of traditional tools of the trade: handmade papers, pastes, brushes, radiograph pens, pencils, inks, etc.” Even though she’s now in love with her mobile apparatus, Jacqueline is at heart a crafty artist and still very fond of media of the most disparate kinds to create new things. As she explains, “I love working with my hands. I make hand bound books, I spin my own silk and cotton threads, using hand spindles and charkhas (Indian spinning wheel), I design and create textiles using traditional bobbin lacemaking (off-loom weaving) techniques… and I draw, using old fashioned radiograph pens.” Continue reading “iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #6 – Jacqueline Gaines”

iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #5 – Janine Graf

Janine Graf is a photographer based in the United States. She has won over the attention of her admirers with her extravagant iPhone images, an amalgam of ordinary and surreal elements, sprinkled with a good dose of impertinent facetiousness.

Meet me on the Brooklyn Bridge © Janine Graf

Like many other converts to mobile photography, Janine’s interest in iPhone photography was triggered by practical reasons. “I started shooting and editing with my iPhone in 2010. I was tired of lugging my monster DSLR around and eventually I started to consistently leave it at home; what’s the point in that?” She recalls an episode in particular, which she sees as a sort of turning point, “One day my family and I were at a koi store and I wanted to take a picture of the baby koi fish we had just purchased. Not having my ‘real’ camera, I took a picture of it with the Hipstamatic. I couldn’t believe how beautiful that picture actually was. It was shortly thereafter that I made the conscious decision to solely use the iPhone for image taking. Serious processing came a bit later.” Continue reading “iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #5 – Janine Graf”

iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #4 – Gianluca Ricoveri

Gianluca Ricoveri is a photographer from Tuscany, the beloved region in central Italy that many painters and poets have celebrated in their art for centuries. Gianluca is currently a dedicated iPhone shooter; he became acquainted with his iDevice’s camera after years of refining his skills with totally different equipment and formats and after learning photography’s ins and outs. Even with his artistic background, Ricoveri had no problem embracing the new mobile technology for his creative purposes. “I have always used many camera formats since I started taking pictures,” he tells us, “From 24×36, to 6×6 and the 13×18 optical bench.”

Gianluca describes his encounter with mobile photography as accidental. “I discovered iPhone photography by chance, after finding a catalogue of pictures taken with Hipstamatic. This showed a brand new world to me and the countless possibilities given by such a great app, so I started to experiment with various films, lenses and flashes by taking massive amounts of pictures. Since then, it was all about discovering new apps both for taking and editing pictures.”

iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #3 – Sarah Jarrett

Sarah Jarrett is a visual artist based in the United Kingdom. She won the grand prize at the Mobile Photography Awards as Photographer and Artist of the year in 2012. Her pieces are otherworldly and enigmatic representations of reality and its deceptive qualities as seen through the lens of a visionary. Sarah’s images are capable of questioning commonly accepted notions of social roles and personal identity; her portraits are particularly memorable, mixing techniques and vivid color palettes in visual pastiches that are both lyrical and blatant.

We approached Sarah Jarrett with great eagerness to learn more about her personal ideas about art applied to mobile platforms. As many iPhone and iPad “converts”, Sarah started making art in the old analog days, when tools and materials were more demanding under many points of view. “I did my degree in Photography at Art College in London but it was entirely film and paper based. Digital didn’t exist,” she recalls. Continue reading

iPhoneographers In Front Of The Lens #1 – James Clarke

Apps and developers making them are our constant topic, but it’s the way people use the apps that actually makes a difference. That’s why it has been our intention for a long time to give space to mobile visual artists from around the world and to their unique vision. We got in touch with these artists mainly through our Flickr group, although in some instances we have been following them through other channels as well.

In the first feature in this series, we will introduce you to the works of James Clarke. James told us that his passion for creating has long-lasting roots: previously he worked as a glass artist for over 25 years. Of his former occupation he says, “Those days are over, but I still enjoy creating things. Sculpture and design have always been of interest and I continue to create things when time permits.”

A Boy With His Head In The Clouds #4 © James Clarke

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