Eric’s Note: This article is written by Mehdi Bouqua, a street photographer based in LA. He shares his experiences shooting with an iPhone– and the importance of documenting life. Mehdi shares more of his thoughts and images below:
Mehdi: Today’s society is definitely over equipped/ flooded with many different types and genres of technological gadgets for all sort of necessities. Photography has become an essential tool of proof and evidence, showing, duplicating a moment and emotion by capturing the exact frame, reflecting it, and documenting it all at once.
It is a shame that only a minority of enthusiasts have awakened to explore, document every emotion, segment of reality and life in a creative sense to bring us closer together, to share our love in a sentimental picture, and in a matter of established fact.
In short I encourage everyone to participate in this medium or phenomenon by using their tools (phones) and to put them in better use in order for us to improve the better of our future, and to also express our selves freely in many different ways and techniques.
In my pocket I have a small gadget that performs many technological tricks, and one of them is photography. In face value I would like to share and contribute some moments, phases, emotions and objects transparently to the world, hoping to encourage everyone to do the same.
Photos shot with the iPhone 4 and 5, using Photoshop Express and Instagram for the post-processing.
Hopefully these inspire you.
Love and peace, and cheers to the future.
– Mehdi Bouqua
Interview with Medhi Bouqua
Above is an interview I did with Mehdi in the streets of LA about a year or so ago. You can see more of his raw street portraits here.