The speed with which professional-quality cameras have been made accessible through smart phones means the tools to document our environment are already in many of our hands. Tracing the curve of technological advancement through different generations of iPhone, photographer, artist and director Axel Morin follows the rise and rise of the camera phone and its capabilities in ‘GSM 2015 - 2022’ – his first edited photographic book.

Commenting on the blurring boundaries between traditional imagemaking and new formats, developed to compete on a high level, the release is accompanied by a new audio/visual project, exploring these themes through the moving image. Titled Phantasmagoria, and produced entirely using phone photography, the video project oscillates through poetic shots capturing Morin’s urban surroundings in motion, set against an original track by music producer and Miraval Studio co-creator Damien Quintard. A snapshot of the movement, textures and colors that define the spaces we move through, the piece documents the spontaneous process by which life can be transformed into art in today’s technological landscape.

Displayed in Spatial Audio technology as part of a new exhibition at Dover Street Little Market in Paris – taking over 3537 for Paris Fashion Week – the artistic work becomes the centerpiece of a photographic exploration of iPhone’s integrated technologies. Enabling quality capture of the otherwise everyday through the means at our fingertips, Morin’s arresting meditations on the urban landscape explore new technologies as a route to expanding the possibilities of photography from every angle.