It’s frustrating being a contemporary photographer, especially one that likes portraiture. Over the past few years, most candid portraits that I’ve attempted to take have had a cell phone in them. I’ve walked away from many shots, because I didn’t have the patience to wait for people to get off their phones. I think it’s time to just start snapping the photos…phone and all. Trying to avoid cell phones is like trying to create a scene from the past. Maybe we will reflect back on cell phone photos, as handhelds will likely be obsolete in the future, and be amused. I guess all photographers have had to learn to accept technology and integrate it into their work–the cell phone is just a hard one to swallow.
Photographing Cell Phone, Jen Grygiel, Revere, MA
-jen
