iPhoneography: Updated Visual Dialogs” at The Lunch Box Gallery Opening Reception
Thursday, March 7, 7-10pm
The Lunch Box Gallery
310 NW 24th St.
Miami, Fl 33127
The Lunch Box Gallery, in collaboration with iPhoneographer Jaime Ferreyros, is pleased to announce its new show iPhoneography: Updated Visual Dialogs, from March 10th to April 7th, 2012.
It’s undeniable: iPhoneography, understood as the creative process of taking and editing pictures with the Apple’s iPhone, is everywhere; and nowadays, there are more and more people recognizing this device as a valid camera within the Photography art form. Regardless if it can be accepted as an outlet for the artist or more of a user-oriented medium, mobile photography has become one of the most democratic activities of image-taking. For this show, The Lunch Box Gallery is aiming to explore the social phenomenon of iPhoneography as a personal tool globally used to generate visual content, be shared and therefore, communicate. Here, the images many times meticulously conceived, some others more intuitively taken – yet all intentionally post-produced – are intended as narrative mirrors of the user’s everyday life; a visual diary of the individual that can become an open book to their interests, curiosities, ideas, intimacy or even artistic take.
As an enabler for creative communication, iPhoneography has become a new medium for massive dialog, where images taken and edited with the iPhone are openly shared, sometimes instantly and some other times preceded by a complex creative process; regardless, is unquestionable that all of these images project a part of the user’s self, and where issues of immediacy, portability, publicness, comfort, creation and creativity within arm’s reach, or obsession with self-expression and storage play a big role and are some of the topics to think about today’s societies.
The exhibition iPhoneography: Updated Visual Dialogs as a whole will be an integral, heterogeneous and diverse expression of that avalanche of pixels that are being registered and shared in modern times; yet, every picture in the show becomes a small window, a glimpse of the iPhoneographer’s updated vision, sensitivity and everyday life. This innovative show is intended to be a raw and free-flow representation of the iPhoneography movement, and is inspired by Chase Jarvis famous quote “The Best Camera is the One That’s With You” â„¢.
The call for entries for the show is still open to all iPhoneographers until March 4th, and a submission of a maximum of 3 images per applicant is required. The gallery guaranteed automatic acceptance of all applicants to be featured in the gallery, joining this sincere representation of the massive use of the medium; yet, at least 1 out of 3 photographs by every applicant is going to be printed and shown.
iPhoneography: Updated Visual Dialogs will be open to the public from March 10th to April 7th, 2012 and the opening reception will be on March 8th from 7-10pm. Regular business hours: Tuesday to Saturday 11am – 6pm.
