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Perchance to Dream
See, here’s the thing about shooting photographs with your cell phone: it’s not a serious camera. That means you can relax. Try stuff. Shoot something different. Shoot something familiar in a different way. Shoot something different in a familiar way. It’s liberating because it’s just your cell phone.
It’s not a serious camera, which gives it a perverse and contrary power to be used in serious ways. This photograph could have been shot with a Hasselblad or an 8×10 Linhof, but that would have involved more physical and artistic labor. It would have been a serious photograph shot with serious purpose requiring some initial serious thought and planning; the resulting image would be weighed down with the creative gravity of the process.
But this? This manages to feel both serious and effortless. This could have been shot completely on impulse. There are elements of genuine intensity here, and they’re wonderfully unencumbered by the ballast of Art.
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