Antonio Bolfo was an animator at Harominx, working on video games such as Guitar Hero. Then, with the legacy of September 11 on his mind, he joined the New York Police Department. He started bringing a camera along and snapped photos of the police at work. And then he left the force and made photography his main gig. More »
Thanks to its wonderfully convenient camera, most iPhones are home to dozens if not hundreds of random photos, depicting everything from smiling friends’ faces to particularly interesting bits of plastic, all fuel for Chillingo’s twisted new photo game Play Kalei. More »
Trey Ratcliff runs one of the most popular travel photo blogs in the world, he is also the first person to have an HDR picture hang in the Smithsonian. His photos may feel familiar to gamers, perhaps that’s because Ratcliff himself is one. More »
Ian Bogost has an interesting essay up comparing the flowering of user generated content to the Kodak Brownie camera — in comparison to the unwieldy early cameras, the Brownie brought snapshots to the people. Simple and portable, it allowed people to create their own personal snapshots, something that Kodak capitalized on. In much the same way that Brownies allowed non-professionals to photograph personal moments that had a limited audience, so too does user generated content allow people to create digital ‘snapshots.’ That is, with the introduction of tools that just about anyone can use, people are able to create things that have personal meaning, but probably little meaning to the world at large. But meaning — and quality — aren’t the point here:
