Mobile phone photography

Mobile phone photography or iphoneography has advanced rapidly in a few short years.  Your phone camera is your best camera, because it's always with you. Most mobile phone cameras take very dull photos. However, it doesn't matter, because there are hundreds of apps to help you turn them into something amazing.

Mobile photography apps give you the creative power of Photoshop and more. This makes mobile photography incredibly liberating. The ability to show your images to the world has made mobile photography an incredibly vibrant genre. Sharing via mobile phone is hassle-free. The importance of apps for mobile photography means the genre is characterised by highly processed images that can bear little connection to reality.  

Instagram had 100 million users and hosted 4 billion photos. Facebook hosts far more photos but not all are taken with mobile cameras. Had Flickr launched a mobile app a couple of years ago to integrate with its online archive, Instagram might never have existed.

A large number of mobile photos are snapshots of daily life, but people are doing a lot more with mobile photography nowadays than simply taking photos of their birthday parties or their cats. Having discovered they now always have a camera with them, that there is very little cost involved and that they can interact socially through their photos, millions of people have taken up photography through their smartphones.

Photojournalists have most to fear from mobile photographers. If something dramatic happens on the street, someone's already there taking a photo of it. Mobile photography can be very good at street and editorial photography. Mobile photographers can get close to their subjects and not be recognised as a photographer, allowing them to get more authentic images of people.

Mobile photography provides a new channel for effective visual advertising, and are making use of social media platform.  Photography agencies are also tapping into the trend. With clients increasingly on the lookout for photos with the authenticity of imperfection, agencies are turning to non-professionals and the 250 million-plus photos uploaded every day to the internet. Some, perhaps ahead of the curve, are also seeking out the heavily processed look typical of mobile apps.

As a young genre, mobile photography is still finding its own identity. Its roots may be in online and digital, but it has aspirations to be taken seriously by the rest of the photography world and various physical exhibitions have taken place.

Some exhibitions are the result of competitions. One of the biggest, the Mobile Photo awards, takes its winning photos on a tour of various US cities. There are dozens of daily blogs and community websites about mobile photography. iphoneography.com, provides up-to-the-minute reviews of apps and hosts a gallery of mobile work. Instagramers.com also posts regular news of mobile photography events and developments.

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