How is this for a personal, firsthand testimony, from a 4-decade career photographer, who has been shooting, exclusively, over the last decade, with iPhone cameras?
“I have never, in my photographic career and life, since 1975, been more emotionally attached, to the body-of-work I have and am creating, than I am today, thanks to my beloved iPhone cameras”.
Passion begets passion.
It’s a photographic love-affair that I’m not ashamed about.
No, like any camera, my iPhone cameras, all of them, are not perfect. Far from it. But given the subjects, scenes and scenarios I shoot, in life, as I move and meander through the rituals, routines and rhythms of my day-to-day existence, they are as perfect as it gets for me.
My photographic philosophy, born out of the last decade of experience, is that “art grows out of the heart”.
You have to be emotionally connected to and invested in, your photography, to consistent create remarkable and memorable work.
Otherwise, you are only creating work that is technically rich but soulfully bankrupt?
As I look back to my own popular conversion to iPhone photography, on the island of Barbados, at the Crane Resort, 7.01AM, February 18, 2011, I can’t help but notice an autobiographic change that happened in my own photography on that game-changing morning.
The quote “Don’t show me what it looks like, show me what it feels like” is attributed to the American poet and writer Toni Morrison. Her words emphasize the importance of evoking emotions and experiences through art, rather than merely depicting visual appearances. It’s a powerful reminder to seek deeper connections beyond the surface level.
This is exactly how I move through life with my iPhone cameras.
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Jack
