Life in LoFi: iPhoneography

iPhoneographer Dixon Hamby is hosting an iPhone Image Collaboration. Since December 30, 2009, over 50 artists have participated and the project has gotten a lot of buzz on Twitter.

The concept is simple. Download this image, manipulate it on your iPhone and send your concept of the image to dixon@idixon.com. Include your Twitter nick in the email for credit. Your image will be posted with a photocredit in a slide show on the site. There is no submission fee.

Click here to view the gallery of images. It’s worth a look. It’s a rare opportunity to see dozens of photographer’s view of the same image.

For more information, visit Dixon Hamby’s tumblr site.

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Here’s an interesting project from photographer Kevin Bauman. It wasn’t photographed with an iPhone, but it’s a very interesting collection of photography from a city that I became fascinated with over ten years ago. The project is called “100 Abandoned Houses” and viewed as whole, I think it’s a stunning, personal photojournal of the decline of one of the U.S.’ great cities.

Ten years ago, I flew to Detroit to catch one of the last baseball games at Tiger Stadium. My friend was a great hostess and drove me around the city, where I saw hundreds of beautiful old buildings mostly abandoned. I could imagine many of these houses were striking in their day. Restored, they’d be mansions here.

As we drove around these old, former neighborhoods, I couldn’t help but think that parts of Detroit were a city in ruins. My friend, Kelly, told me that the backlog for the city to demolish these old buildings was 20 years.

Built with auto industry money, most of these beautiful old houses are now beyond repair.

I like Kevin Bauman’s style of shooting these old houses. His framing is simple and consistent. Every shot is a full-frontal. When viewed as a whole, to me it’s an impressive piece of work.

Click here to see 100 Abandoned Houses.

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