This question came to mind
this past Thursday when I attended a gallery event at Hamilton Galleries
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| Hamilton Galleries Santa Monica, California |
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Skateboard Legend Tony Hawk
signs his mobile image on canvas |
in Santa Monica. Hundreds of attendees shared comments about the winning mobile images on canvas. Instacanvas, an internet based company, hosted this one-night
exhibition of some of the best mobile photographers from around the world. Aside from the online selling of images on canvas and other
products, the focus of this company is on the mobile photographer – allowing
folks to upload their instagram images,
giving them an online gallery to showcase their work and an opportunity to not
only sell their images but to get feedback through peer group voting on images. Instacanvas creates online challenges which further
provides exposure for the photographers.
Among the 70 plus images on view at the event, were mobile images on canvas by famed
skateboarder Tony Hawk and well known rapper, Evidence. There is
something about the immediacy of the moment that inspires us to use the ever
increasing quality of the mobile phone to capture our vision in a photographic
image. Also, the ability to use app editing software like Snapseed increases anyone’s chance to play with their images in a creative way. Whether
or not the resulting images are ‘fine art photography’ is up to the viewer, however it is satisfying to
know that the mobile phone can document important
and inspiring moments in peoples’ lives and with companies like Instacanvas,
can share these images with the online world and ultimately to the ‘real world’
through printing them on canvas and other products. It is also refreshing to see that the
‘artist/photographers are making money on their images(there are no fees
charged to the photographers to keep images on the site) – making it a win-win
partnership for Instacanvas and the artist.
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Hamilton Galleries mobile images
on canvas. |
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