iPhoneographers: Why?

by Aaron Hockley on August 11, 2011

There are lots of great images being created with an iPhone as the camera. The iPhone is the most popular camera on Flickr and services such as Instagram have created a new world of photo creation and sharing.

Recently I’ve started hearing some folks refer to themselves as iPhoneographers. Seems funky to me. When they create images with a DSLR do they call themselves Canonographers? Or NikonD700ographers?

I don’t get it. It seems to me that one should label themselves based on their artwork and not their camera.

Hawthorne Bridge in Portland Oregon, created with an iPhone
iPhoneography?

Tagged as: equipment, flickr, gear, instagram, iphone, iphoneoagraphy, iphoneographer

  • Darrin

    You raise a good point. I’ve been guilty as using iphoneographer in my tags on instagram. My thoughts were to seperate what I photograph with my iPhone vs what I photograph with a DSLR but in the bigger picture, just like you say, why? 

  • http://www.facebook.com/bob.harbison Bob Harbison

    The iPhone camera is pretty good, but for a lot of these folks it’s like the dancing bear “It’s not that he’s a good dancer, but just the fact he can dance at all!”

    A ocuple years ago it was HDR, now it’s the iphone. Next year it will be 3D or video (or HDR 3D Video, who knows?)

    It’s a fad, it’s cool, it’s fun. Nothing wrong with that…

  • http://blogan.net Brent Logan

    Maybe because it’s a happy, funny word, sounding like “I phony ographer.” I prefer to think of myself as a snapshooterist.

  • Anonymous

    I have noticed this sort of phenom before. People do the same old thing they have always done with a slightly new spin or tacked onto a new set of gizmos. Calling it something else makes it feel exclusive and “bleeding edge.”

    I think that overall this is OK because it grows interest in a new segment of people.

    I wonder if iphoneography will develop the next stage of the cycle. The one where iphoneographers start challenging “traditional” photographers as relics of a bygone era.

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