Photography in the Era of Smartphone Journalism
Photography in the Era of Smartphone Journalism

Summary/Abstract: Every day, we carry in our pockets a device that is currently no longer designed just for telephoning or sending messages, but contains a variety of other functions. This has also helped modern journalism – smartphones are for journalists what a pen and paper once were. They can use it to take notes, as well as record respondents' statements, shoot pictures or stream live through a social network. News can thus get to the viewers or listeners almost immediately, by simple sharing. Current smartphones have integrated cameras, which are approaching the resolution of a professional single-lens reflex camera. What place do smartphones have in journalism? Doesn’t the fact that they can technically never reach single-lens cameras due to absence of a chip disqualify them? And aren’t the boundaries between a professional and amateur photographer becoming blurred? In the following article, we will try to find answers to these questions and demonstrate the findings on examples of foreign and local photojournalists.

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