qWhat was it about the subject that appealed to you?
aIn my time in the UAE I have always driven around the country and seen places that I have wanted to photograph and I had a list in my mind. In our jobs we do mostly portraits or feature-story photos, but we do not shoot much landscape. I wanted to show the landscape of the city.It is very particular, there is desert and concrete and there is not much green.
Why did you take the photos using an iPhone?
Now is a transition time for photographers, and I wanted to try something new. Some people see photographers with iPhones and think they are amateurs. As long as the technology keeps improving, I think it is the future, especially for photojournalists. It is not important what you use, what you see is the important thing. There is a Magnum photographer [Michael Christopher Brown] who tells stories with just an iPhone.
Is it different using an iPhone rather than a regular camera?
Yes, and it is nice to do something different. You can shoot so freely with an iPhone, nobody cares. That is the best part of it. You don’t have to worry that someone, a security guard, will come over to you. It makes it a good experience.
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