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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