Mobile Phone Workshop

pic photography student's experiments

Can a mobile phone be a creative tool?

Over 6 weeks in this elective, students will attempt to create a series of images that exploit and capitalise on the features, or lack of, inherent in their mobile phones. The results will be published here.sony ericsson mobile phone with a built in camera

Why run a workshop on Mobile Phones?

Historically, mobile phone cameras have been laughed at by the professional and to an extent amateur image making markets. This lack of respect stems from their lack of controls and their sheer weight of numbers. As CCD sizes increase and lens quality improves however, this takes the idea of using a mobile phone into new and uncharted territory. Understanding the mobile phone's shortcomings will, we hope, help students to appreciate their larger DSLR counterparts and learn how to see problems with exposure situations and lens aberrations. As well as gain an appreciation for cameras of all formats and for film.

We also hope to encourage students to “see” their surrounds and understand how important a part light itself plays in the image making process, along with composition and visual awareness, and not be afraid to follow their intutiuon and grab images anywhere anytime.

How will these workshops run?

Each week over 6 weeks students will be expected to use their mobile phone cameras to respond to a “brief” usually based around an idea or a word. These ideas are intended to get the students think about the cameras alleged shortcomings and try get them to exploit the shortcomings creatively. The resulting images will be published by pic photographic imaging college here at the end of the course, use the boxes on the left to choose a week or idea.

What will be the outcome?

Each student/participant will have their images published here on this site, some also may opt to publish small hard - copy books of their results, they will also be encouraged to put their work online in places like flickr.

Copyright Notice

All the images on this site remain the property of their respective photographers, none maybe used in any way shape or form without the photographer's written consent.