While the phone has been important to me in recording these last ten years, it is really the recording of daily life that matters and not the mode. So if you feel at home with any other camera please use that. Using a phone is not a prerequisite.

Curiously however I now only use a phone for my photography. It’s a camera that takes calls for me, much to the annoyance of everyone I know. The phone is exciting for the photography world. For lots of worlds. It has liberated creativity.

That liberation of the everyday person that we all are, is what sparked a light in me.

I’m not even totally sure why. With a background in teaching photography came the knowledge to use any camera I wanted. Why was it that this little guy was the only one I wanted to use? The only one that sparked creativity? 

Maybe it’s the limitations? They can force you to think differently. Creativity is many things of course but I think the real purpose of creativity is change. To see and think differently. That’s what art is for right? So we can understand this human condition we find ourselves in, from many points of view.

When only some people are able to express themselves, we only see one point of view. 

Or maybe I just like breaking rules and I love the idea of making something highbrow out of something low. Something that’s not a “proper camera”.

One of my favourite people in the world is George Eastman, founder of Kodak. He found a way to empower the everyday person to tell their own stories. He was also supposed to be a nice, cool guy, who was great to work for and gave most of his money away.