Mobiography

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MobiographyReviewsOut Now: October 2026 Issue Feat. Soumayan Biswas and Manel Antolí, & The No Fusion App Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

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MobiographyReviewsOut Now: August 2026 Issue Feat. Ali Zolghadri and Alison Devine, Plus Wildlife Photography Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

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MobiographyReviewsOut Now: June 2026 Issue Feat. Tomasz Żukowski and Louise Rayner, Plus Snapseed Camera App Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

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MobiographyReviewsOut Now: April 2026 Issue Feat. Ho-Yin Lui and José Luis Morales, Plus Mood Camera App Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

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MobiographyReviewsOut Now: February 2026 Issue Feat. Miguel Castellano and Charne Odendaal, plus Food Photography Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

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MobiographyReviewsOut Now: December 2025 Issue Feat. Annie Lamiral and Agnieszka Aniol Plus Festive Photo Ideas Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

2025.12.05

The small bracket on top of every camera, from a phone rig to an ARRI.

The hot shoe is where the flash goes, and the microphone, and the monitor, and whatever the next decade bolts on. Every camera has one and nobody photographs it. This magazine is named after it because that is where the whole business meets: the body, the glass, the light, the sound, and the person holding it.

I shot news in Gothenburg for nine years and documentary for hire after that, then stopped taking assignments to write about the tools. Since 2021 I live in Tokyo, ten minutes from the used-camera shops of Shinjuku, which is not an accident: Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Ricoh and Sigma make almost everything worth pointing at a subject, and their own press writes about it first, in Japanese. So this magazine reads it there, and in German, French, Italian and Spanish, and in English from the reviewers who actually put a card in the slot — around eighty sources and thirty channels, counted and plotted so you can see what is moving.

Bodies and lenses, cinema cameras and drones, film and the darkroom, firmware and the software that finishes the picture, the rumours before the launch and the reviews after it, and the photographers and shows the rest of it is for. I test what I write about on a job before a word goes down. I shoot film on Sundays and do not think that makes me interesting.

A story here is a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link to whoever reported it. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the photographer or the maker. A story written in Japanese appears in Japanese, as its author set it down; the link goes to the original.

— Mara Lindqvist, Tokyo

Mobiography

MobiographyReviewsOut Now: October 2026 Issue Feat.​ Soumayan Biswas and Manel Antolí, & The No Fusion App Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

MobiographyReviewsOut Now: August 2026 Issue Feat.​ Ali Zolghadri and Alison Devine, Plus Wildlife Photography Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

MobiographyReviewsOut Now: June 2026 Issue Feat.​ Tomasz Żukowski and Louise Rayner, Plus Snapseed Camera App Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

MobiographyReviewsOut Now: April 2026 Issue Feat.​ Ho-Yin Lui and José Luis Morales, Plus Mood Camera App Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.

MobiographyReviewsOut Now: February 2026 Issue Feat.​ Miguel Castellano and Charne Odendaal, plus Food Photography Check out the latest issue of Mobiography Magazine and learn to take better photos with your smartphone with Mobiography Magazine. Feat.