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
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”