this year’s TIPA World Awards – you can read all about the winners in this issue – was the proposal to expand the number of smartphone categories from one to three. Given all the TIPA members are photography magazines of one flavour or another, the discussion was robust. After all, it’s the smartphone that’s decimated a significant sector of the camera business that’s resulted in a very big market retraction. To be honest, it’s hard to see how this could have been stopped, given everything
