As smart phones have turned photography on its head, the Saatchi Art Motion Photography Contest looks to the masses for understanding the medium’s future.
Pending your artistic persuasion , the voguish phone is the best – or defective – thing that has fall out to photography since , well , maybe the daguerrotype . Whatever your thoughts on its implications for the art form ’s time to come , one thing is irrefutable : the smart phone has democratized photography , reserve all sort of people from varied scope to capture bits and pieces of their life and share it with the world .
In light of this raw wafture of snapping , storing and communion , Saatchi Art , the Saatchi Gallery and Google+ have team up up to create their first annual Motion Photography Contest . Budding and professional photographers alike can render their entry toSaatchi Gallery ’s Google+ pagein GIF data format , where they will be judged by artists like Tracey Emin , Shezad Dawood , Cindy Sherman and even Baz Luhrmann . competition winners will be whisked away to London to view their work in a private gallery , and their piece will be featured on Saatchi ’s web site , the world ’s leading online art veranda .
