14&15 Mobile Photographers

14&15 Mobile Photographers is the first international showcase dedicated exclusively to mobile photographers and to their work. We are driven by a great curiosity to explore the new frontiers of digital photography, the mobile photography. For this reason, in 2015 we launched this platform, with the aim of promoting this sector of photography which is growing fast worldwide. We believe that the smartphone is only a tool to take pictures and does not represent anything more than an easy and fast camera. But this smart tool is always with us, ready to record our life in every moment.

1415_1 iPhone with Hipstamatic appPhoto by Scott Strazzante
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Removed

They are not playing cards. Removed is a project by American photographer Eric Pickersgill where the pervasiveness of the cellphone is highlighted through its absence. Ordinary images in which the central object is removed and in this way the scene appears in all its absurdity.

Pickersgill comments:

Family sitting next to me at Illium café in Troy, NY is so disconnected from one another. Not much talking. Father and two daughters have their own phones out. Mom doesn’t have one or chooses to leave it put away. She stares out the window, sad and alone in the company of her closest family. Dad looks up every so often to announce some obscure piece of info he found online. Twice he goes on about a large fish that was caught. No one replies. I am saddened by the use of technology for interaction in exchange for not interacting. This has never happened before and I doubt we have scratched the surface of the social impact of this new experience. Mom has her phone out now.

The Removed site is here, with many images.