Before finally upgrading to a
smartphone last year, the photographer in me always thought it would be cool to
have a camera phone. But then I got my BlackBerry, and I realised…well, I realised
that the images are just a bit shit – especially when you zoom in. There's no
optical zoom, just a digital option which crops the final file and adds a lot
of noise. Add to that no control of exposure and the difficulty of actually taking
and framing images on the phone, and the whole thing began to seem rather
pointless. But then, one day a few weeks ago, I was bored and waiting for my
girlfriend to finish picking something up from her office. So I started taking
some photos. The images weren't very good, but there was something about these two
pictures which struck me:
Somewhere, in among the blur
and the grain, there was a kind of beauty. The noise in the images reminded me
of the brushstrokes of the impressionist painters. When I was a kid, I told my
parents that I didn't like impressionism because the images were 'scruffy'. It
was this 'scruffiness' that I was now responding to in these two photographs.
With this in mind, I decided
to embark on a photography project. A series of photographs taken on my
BlackBerry, on full zoom, highlighting the 'impressionism' (the 'scruffiness') of the images
generated. What follows below is the result of this project.
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