iPhonography
Your photography is a record of your living. –Paul Strand.
As a photographer, my job is to constantly look at my surroundings and find amazement in the mundane, to portray the everyday with a sense of wonderment. I am constantly composing and recomposing myself in relation to my subjects, looking at all out front of me for the best way to tell its unique story. Like Lewis Hines said, “If I could tell the story in words, I wouldn’t need to lug around a camera.”
If Lewis Hines were alive today he’d probably have much less to lug around. As for myself, pushing photographic boundaries also means using any photographic medium I can, from pinhole cameras to polaroids, medium format cameras to iPhones. I’ve written before that my iPhone is becoming what my polaroid cameras were in days past, an easy way to rethink all I think about conventional photography, my relationship to it and its relationship to the world around me. My iPhone has become another tool for telling a story words alone could not do.
Below: A Study of Portland’s Custom House Wharf, Portland, ME (as seen with an iPhone)
 Harbor Fish Market |
 Reflection of backside of Harbor Fish Market. |
 Front of Harbor Fish Market |
 Colourful sign for Comedy Connection |
 One of my favourite places in Portland, The Porthole |
 The counter at the Porthole |
 Advertisement at the Porthold |
 A study of textures and patterns |
 A theme of no parking as well as a study of textures, patterns and the juxtaposition of words. |
 A study of textures, patterns and the juxtaposition of words. |
 A study of textures, patterns and the juxtaposition of words. |
 A study of textures, patterns and light. |
 A study of textures, patterns and light. |
 Walking uptown from the harbor, encountering the universal symbol for barber shop |
 A study of symbols, words and their juxtaposition |
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