My favorite iPhone Photos
End of the red iPhone era
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They say that the best camera is the camera that you have with you.
In the last decade or so, that camera has become a phone, which is why there has been a large rise in the iPhone photography movement, with people capturing absolutely incredible things from just the devices in their pockets, but as I’ve written about before, I think that this has also led to the proliferation of content just for content, in capturing instead of living, and in living just to post.
I spent the last few years with a red iPhone SE. It didn’t have face ID, a 0.5 camera angle, or a large display, but it saw me move from Spain to The Netherlands, and more recently, to Australia and back. It helped me maintain long distance friendships, and it went on innumerable trips, hikes, and explorations. Towards the end, in the last year and a half maybe, it started having a serious storage issue and battery problem, which left me deleting and redownloading Gmail and my bank app, and often left me lost without a clear direction home.
Interestingly, this meant that I had to be really selective with what I deemed photographable, with the moments that I wanted to capture with my phone and the ones that I was okay committing to memory.
For this week’s Scattershot, I wanted to share some of my favorite iPhone photos taken in the last year or so, with the thought of limited storage behind them, and perhaps more importantly, all survivors of constant camera roll clean outs conducted in buses, trains, between meal times, and in airplane seats.
Not necessarily the best, not the most polished, or technically “good,” but my favorite.
Now that I have a new (second hand) phone, I’ve been obsessed with taking 0.5 photos, and seeing how far I can push that, but I’m also trying to maintain elements of the limits placed by my old phone and how selective it forced me to be with what I chose to document.
I’ll keep you updated.
Recommendations and Favorite Things:
Sakir Khader’s exhibition at the FOAM in Amsterdam
- article that is really making me miss Australian summer
When taking photos on your phone, clean the camera!!!
Maarten Baas has his first solo exhibit in Amsterdam at Ronmandos, it’s called Crescendo! and it is astonishing.
This french YouTube channel that interviews interesting photographers worldwide
Very late to the game but coffee with coconut milk, and also strawberry matcha
Thank you for reading, I’ll see you next time,
S
Best camera is the one you have on you indeed! I'm suprised with the era of limited storage you didn't consider getting a dedicated smaller point and shoot camera. But then again iphones are still smaller than even the smallest point and shoot camera.