Boundless – Emotional Photography by John Covington

The photographer responsible for this app, John Covington is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers (ASMP). He shoots for a wide range of national publications within the automotive, alternative fashion and music industries.

His inspiration for Boundless came about almost by accident – whilst photography the many alternative and tattooed models pouring into his studio he began to feel an energy and grace around each one. With the constraints of the commercial assignments placed upon him he could not express the creativeness he felt. He invited them back to his studio on their own terms where he could fully explore their feminity behind a lens.

The result is quite spiritual and represents a collection of moments. Boundless contains 50 predominately black and white thumbnails of the female form.

This app contains nudity, let’s establish that point but it is wrapped up in an arty way, certainly when compared to Bikini Babes or the like. Each thumbnail is layered above a very tightly cropped higher resolution copy of the photo. The higher res image omits the main contentious areas but if you zoom in to the thumbnail you will be able to see more, but they are highly pixelated.

Many of the thumbnails have been blurred by the developer, Jan Friml, he said ‘I did it because I did not want to risk getting rejected by Apple so I chose the most "critical" images and blurred them – rather in advance’. It seems that this strategy paid off as Apple wasted no time approving this app.

Boundless offers a new dimension in naked photographic apps. It is not crude or crass but most definitely art and I think that is what Apple liked about it and why they have approved it. It does come with a 17+ rating and I agree Apple have not been consistent with their criticism of apps in the past – perhaps now, things are changing. What do you think? Feel free to comment on our Forums.