[The Guardian] The iPhone at 15: pro photographers on how it changed their world

The iPhone at 15: pro photographers on how it changed their world

This week marks 15 years since the iPhone first went on sale and ushered in a new era: the age of the smartphone. To record a snapshot of that change, Associated Press photographers around the world captured images on their mobiles and reflected on the nature of iPhone photography

It is hard to recall today how different mobile access was before the evening of 29 June 2007 when Apple in the US released the first iPhone. Social media and the ability for everyone to respond globally to everything were in their infancy. And while older phones certainly had cameras, the quality – and the potential for instant editing and filtering and sharing that exists today – wasn’t yet there.

A traffic officer directs pedestrians during a fair in Brooklyn, New York

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