Inspired by Worthing & Adur council adopting a red telephone box (fab exhibition space!) on the corner of Steyne Gardens and the seafront in Worthing, phonie art is about looking at the type, level and quality of images/artwork you can get from a mobile phone.
phonie art has now been launched on facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Phonie-art/111227838956210
and Flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/phonieart/
People can upload to facebook, and from there I am posting the images on phonie art's flickr page.
phonie art as is is a really wide concept. I think that to really make it work it has to be broken down into themes - almost like a photography competition - maybe focussing on that theme for a month at a time.
Pilot local - 'phonie Worthing' and 'phonie Littlehampton'
Mobile phone cameras are often accepted more than a dSLR is.
People have their phones with them virtually all of the time.
The images I really want to see are those off the beaten photography path, away from picture postcard Worthing/Littlehampton.
A finger-tip document of the town(s) - the small, the quirky, the often unseen, the usual and everyday - but with a different take/perspective.
A major factor is its collectivity, collaboration - a community documented by those that form it, that belong to it.
Around the end of June I switched the Facebook fan page to a group - it seemed to have the potential to work better - I & others could just add our contacts to the group and it would instantly be bigger and more interactive. Which seemed to prove itself in the last week or so of the project
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