iPhone-Wielding Local Woman Has Photos Featured In Sacramento Art Gallery

SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A section pistillate is turning mundane sights into works of art—all with conscionable her iPhone.

Carol Mott-Binkly loves taking pictures. This self-described goofball, who is simply a parent to 5 chickens and 2 chihuahuas, worked successful the advertizing and selling section astatine Tower Records for 19 years.

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So wherever she walks, she’s ever got her iPhone ready.

“All of my photos are random,” she said. “They’re not posed, they’re not planned. They conscionable happen.”

Her enactment is called thoroughfare creation photography. Her enactment has been published successful the Sacramento Bee and served arsenic a doorbell ringer during the KVIE auction.

Dee Neath is the erstwhile curator who brought Carol connected board.

“I really had to spell to my jurors and merchantability the thought this was an iPhone photo,” Dee said of 1 of Carol’s works. “They didn’t judge it.”

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She saw the creation successful Carol’s work.

“Nobody ever asks a creator what marque of overgarment bash you use. You don’t inquire a lensman ‘Oh, was that taken with a Canon?’ This is her medium,” Dee said. “What Carol does is she takes it 1 measurement further to marque it into good art, she prints connected truly bully paper.”

Carol’s enactment is being featured astatine Archival Gallery connected Folsom Boulevard, and the sanction of the exhibit: CaroliPhoneia.

“This is my small canine Ms. Doris,” Carol said of 1 of her photos. “I telephone it Beware of Dog due to the fact that one conscionable emotion the mode this ten-pound canine is commanding security.”

Snapshots of Carol’s beingness are arsenic offbeat arsenic she admittedly is.

“She takes it from a elemental infinitesimal that she captured connected her iPhone and makes it into thing that tin beryllium enactment connected the wall, that radical privation to look astatine for years to come,” Dee said.

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Carol hopes her communicative sets the signifier for others to travel their passions

Rachel Wulff