Yes and no. I love the idea that everyone now has a camera in their pocket, it really is an amazing thing and it's given people around the globe the opportunity to share stories they wouldn’t have been able to before. I do think that smartphones have hurt the value of taking a photo, prior to digital there was a physical and financial cost to taking a photo – that cost adds something to how a photographer would hesitate before pressing the shutter, and sometimes that hesitation is exactly what one needs to be able to perfect the photo.
I do think we’ve reached a level of content fatigue, where there are so many photographs being captured and shared that we’ve lost the appreciation of an image. My hope is that we can be thoughtful again, and as a result, appreciate the moment before it’s captured.