The future is now: mobile phone photos are coming to the Met

The future is now: mobile phone photos are coming to the MetThe next time you take an artistic snapshot with your iPhone, make sure to store it somewhere safe—it just might end up in a museum some day. The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is inviting 24 artists to conduct exchanges with one another through their phones, sending images back and forth “in a game of visual ping-pong”.

The resulting photographs will be presented in the exhibition Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations between Artists (June 2017-January 2018). The images will be presented digitally, on video monitors and touchscreens, and as __more traditional prints. The show, which has not been formally announced, aims to capture the way mobile phone cameras have revolutionised communication.