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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 #2 – David Ingraham

David Ingraham’s images are fine examples of what mobile street photography is capable of. Through the lens of his iPhone, Ingraham exposes extraordinary perspectives, hidden references and ambiguities crowding our ordinary environments. Both human figures and architectural elements are in his photos characters in the same evocative shadowplay.

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