Tiny Photos, Big PictureJoshua Kaufman

Tiny Pictures, Inc.

This is about

I. Where snapshot photography came from

II. What current trends and research are saying

III.Where should we be going?

Part I: From photographs to pervasive images

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whsimages/

In the beginning there was the photograph

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whsimages/

Kodak Brownie, 1900

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whsimages/

Kodacolor negative film, 1942

http://www.flickr.com/photos/whsimages/

Polaroid Model 95A, 1948

http://www.flickr.com/photos/captkodak

Fujifilm Quicksnap, 1986

http://www.pma-show.com/

Fujifilm DS-1P, 1988

http://www.photo-gallery.dk/

The cameraphone, 1997

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cameraphone/,

Portraits

Travel photos

Event photos

Candids

This is photography as we (mostly) know it

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pigstyave/

The Polaroid

http://www.flickr.com/photos/master_of_felix/

The LOMO

http://www.flickr.com/photos/steffe/

The Digital Camera

http://www.flickr.com/photos/captkodak/

The Cameraphone

What the cameraphone is enabling

• Capturing the ordinary not just “Kodak Moments”

• Topics of conversation; “neta”

• Remote presence

• Intimate and personal sharing, but ephemeral

Memory

Social context

Self presentation

Self expression

Functional

A desire to share photography

http://www.flickr.com/photos/coxy/

Part II: The big experiment

Limitations of current photo sharing sites(in the context of cameraphone photography)

• Most are optimized for viewing on a PC

• Optimized for archiving and organizing

• Not optimized for chronology and conversation

Measuring the success of sharing services

• (Low) Complexity

• Conversation

• Chronology

• Context

“Flickr for mobile phones”

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"The photo is a message that is delivered across multiple platforms"

“The player is the delivery channel.”

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“Twitter works. Let’s just add photos!”

“The chronology and context matter.”

“Conversation is king.”

Emerging cameraphone photo sharing themes

• Location aware

• “Level of interest” and new kinds of context

• Tagging

• Synchronous sharing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/philliecasablanca/

Part III: New Directions(five suggestions for continuing the experiment)

1. Empower the now in your designs

2. Create new ways to visualize photos

3. Improve context recognition

4. Let cameraphone images be cameraphone images

5. Take more photos with your cameraphone!

(Bonus) Pretend you are from the future

Thanks

Joshua Kaufman

joshua@tinypictures.us

tinypictures.us

joshuakaufman.org