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Everything you need to know — from the genre's legitimacy as fine art, to the world's best practitioners, the best apps, printing your work, building an audience, and selling prints. by Jerome D. Mobile Photography as a Recognized Genre For the first decade of the smartphone era, a debate raged in photography circles: could images made with a phone ever be considered serious art? That debate is now settled.  Mobile photography is a fully recognized genre , with its own competitions, publications, galleries, and dedicated practitioners whose work hangs in the world's finest institutions. The tipping point came gradually, then suddenly. In 2010, when the iPhone 4 introduced a genuinely capable sensor, photographers began documenting the world with a pocket device in ways that felt immediate, intimate, and visually compelling. Communities formed on Flickr and Instagram. Competitions like the  iPhone Photography Awards ( IPPAWARDS )  — founded in 2007, making it one of the ol...

Mark Power: The Patient Geometry of the World by Jerome D. Introduction Mark Power (b. 1959, Harpenden, England) is one of the most technically rigorous and conceptually ambitious photographers in Britain today — a full member of Magnum Photos since 2007 , a former Professor of Photography at the University of Brighton, and a photographer whose entire practice is built around the idea that a great photograph requires extraordinary patience, preparation, and precision. His path to photography was indirect. He studied Fine Art at Brighton Polytechnic (1978–1981), intending to become a painter, before travelling extensively through Southeast Asia and Australia, where he discovered that he enjoyed using a camera more than a pencil. He returned to England in 1983 and began working as a freelance photographer for publications and charities, joining the prestigious Network Photographers agency in 1988. It was chance that produced his first major body of work: he happened to be in...

Nikos Economopoulos: The Irrational Eye of the Balkans by Jerome D. Introduction Nikos Economopoulos (b. 1953, Kalamata, Peloponnese, Greece) is one of the most significant documentary photographers working in Europe today — a full member of Magnum Photos since 1994 , and the pre-eminent Greek photographer of his generation. His path to photography was indirect and unhurried. He studied law at university in Parma, Italy, and worked as a journalist for years before a chance encounter with a book of photographs changed everything. In 1977, at 23, a friend showed him a volume of Henri Cartier-Bresson's work . The effect was immediate and permanent: "Cartier-Bresson showed me a new way to see things. What I saw in his work was not only geometry and composition, but a kind of ambiguity." Even then, he did not rush. He spent two more years reading photography books before raising a camera. When he started shooting, he did it seriously from the first day: "I nev...