MICHAEL
CHRISTOPHER
BROWN
Time; August 16, 2012
We had a feeling that this year’s Images of the Year would include at least one shot with a phone. For Time’s first issue devoted to wireless technology, Brown captured these images using an iPhone and the Hipstamatic app. “The iPhone’s advantage was its perception,” says Brown. “Members of the public do not perceive a phone in the same way they perceive a camera. I think the images”—about the impact of the Democratic Republic of Congo’s mines, which provide minerals used in the electronics industry —“became more intimate. I do not feel as intrusive with a phone. I was less of a photographer and more of a human.” Though he gave up some resolution, Brown doesn’t mind the trade-off. “Part of the phone’s greatness is that control goes out the window. The focus becomes about the situation and one’s position inside that situation.”
© Michael Christopher Brown
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