Bobby Williams is an artist and film-maker based in Bloomsbury, London. Being a musician enables him to travel a lot and also is able to travel as part of being a camera-op, this gives him plenty of opportunities to explore new places with his camera or Iphone.
Although Bobby has only really been hooked by the photography
bug for the last couple of years, he is pretty obsessed and loves exploring the
various different formats in camera and film. Bobby mainly uses a Fiji X-Pro1
and a Pentax MX, with Kodak Tri-X being his film of choice. Recently he has acquired
a Minolta Autocord TLR and so this should open a whole new way of looking at
making a photograph.
A majority of Bobby’s photographs are taken on his Iphone as this is always on him and so makes it very easy to capture the moment at any time of the day and any place. Since discovering Instagram (username, bobbysaviour) and VSCOCAM, mobile photography has given him a new purpose and distinct purpose.
These platforms give his photographs a placed to live and breathe and are seen widely giving him feedback and inspiration. Bobby finds that these platforms help encourage him to take pictures of very different subjects that he would not normally have thought about beforehand, subjects such as still life, quite moments and more subtle scenes that he would not normally get a “proper” camera out for.
“It’s become a real goal to try and make images that mean something to me with the Iphone, pictures that transcend the mobile snapshot”
“So
although the technical quality of my mobile photos can't match the X-pro1 or
medium format film, some of my favorite images were taken with my Iphone.
It reminds me that it’s the idea, the composition, the execution of an
image that really matters – not the technical capability of the camera.”
Bobby finds inspiration
in other photographers such as Wynn Bullock (especially for his moonlit scenes),
Edward Steichen (for the famous), Saul Leiter (for his use of colour), Vivian Maier (for images that live up to and beyond the story, Karl Blosseldt (for his
plants) and Tarkovsky (for Polaroid’s)
Bobby can be
found on; Instagram as bobbysaviour
And Vsco as bobby.vsco.co
For more work by Bobby Williams visit his him on www.bobbysaviour.com
Written by Paul Hemming
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