Craft
This assertion by Craig Mod is so accurate. His piece, Photography, hello (subtitle: Software ate the camera, but freed the photograph) is easy to read but conceptually deep, as always.
"One of the unexpected joys of shooting with my iPhone has been finding out just how much craft exists in a place supposedly bereft of craft. It’s an oddly rigid assessment to assume a smartphone somehow denies craft from the user. In fact, the argument that craft dissipates as modalities simplify or digitize is so old as to be a running joke for any new media practitioner. From physical to digital film editing, from physical to digital graphic design, from anything to the iPad, and from physical to digital photography, we’ve heard it before: Craft is lost!"
"My belief is is much simpler: craft inhabits whatever medium or tool you work with, if you let it."
Craig Mod, Photography, hello