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Forget private views and patronage. These days artists need only secure a moblie phone, as Tracey Moberly can attest. She's the co-owner of Shoreditch alternative culture venue and hipster haunt The Foundry, and since 2005 she's been using her phone's camera to create artwork and uploading the results to the web. She calls it 'mobilography'. 'Mobile is the most democratic form of computing,' says Moberly, 45. 'And it gives everybody something that can be used as a creative tool. It's quite precious'.

And, what's more, it's always in your pocket, so you can take pictures anywhere, any time. 'When my dad was ill, I took photos. You'd never normally take a camera into the hospital, but I've got memories of his last days because of that.' Moberly says that it has also taught her to find beauty in the seemingly unremarkable: look no further than her snaps of plugholes. 'Everybody is connected in the western hemisphere by a plughole - it links to a sewer which goes into a river - no matter who you are.'

But isn't poor quality a problem? Quite the opposite, she says. 'I've now got an iPhone, but I miss my old Nokia, which had a two-megapixel camera, because the photos were amazingly grainy.'

Her pictures are viewable at sanderswood.com, and if you're a sucker for analogue there's always the book, due out in 2011.

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