Dek Unu Magazine - Armineh Hovanesian

The first batch of touchscreen camera phones that could really compete with standard digital cameras appeared in 2009. Prior to that, lenses were limited, resolutions were sub-par, software was klunky and many thought of the mobile phone as no proper tool for making serious art. Armineh Hovanesian began making serious art with her phone in the same year, making her one of the first practitioners and pioneers in what later came to be called "iPhoneography." Born in Paris, raised in Iran and Boston, today Armineh lives and works in Los Angeles and in the realm of surreal imagination.