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Digital Camera World
Digital Camera World
Mike Harris

Hotel buys photo then refuses to display it because it’s shot on an iPhone –I'm completely baffled!

From below amazed Hispanic female with dark long hair reading surprising news on cellphone against cloudy sundown sky in Mallorca, Spain.

If you liked an image so much that you wanted to buy a print, would the revelation that it was shot on a camera phone prevent you from displaying it? That’s what happened to photographer Graham Smith, who has posted a rather mind-boggling revelation on his Instagram.

He was contacted by a five-star hotel in Madrid that wanted to buy a print of a black-and-white photograph that he captured in Marrakesh, for display in its lobby. Here’s where things took an odd turn.

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