Rough Guides World Lens – Updated
This is a really inspiring app and it has just been updated with push notifications too. Rough Guides’ photographers have been travelling the world for years, their mission to capture the essence of a place, its people, its sights and monuments, its heart and soul. This app showcases the best of what they have seen on their travels: amazing festivals and celebrations; remote paradises; people at work and at play; powerful art and amazing architecture. Overall, their objective has been to document the sheer richness and pleasure of the world at large.
This is a free app and you can download it here. Check out the features below.
Features
An evocative gallery of hundreds of Rough Guides amazing photographs.
• Updated with new photographs every few weeks, so each time you open the app, look out for the new pictures.
• Browse the location of all of the images on a map of the world (requires internet connection).
• Each image includes an extended caption, penned by Rough Guides’ team of writers and locally based correspondents, evoking the essence of the picture and the place.
• Share links to specific images with your friends and family via email, Twitter or Facebook.
• Create a list of your favourite images so that they are easy to navigate back to whenever you want.
• Download any of the images as a wallpaper.
• Features a slideshow control that lets you view all the images one after the other.
• If you want to find out more about any of the destinations.
This single application can be installed on both the iPad, iPhone and iPod touch.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photography journalist, editor, curator, and the founder of *TheAppWhisperer.com*, one of the world’s leading platforms dedicated to mobile photography and art. Since its launch in 2009, TheAppWhisperer has become an international hub for artists of all levels to discover, learn, exhibit, and engage with contemporary photographic practice.Built on principles of inclusivity, accessibility, and artistic excellence, Joanne has spent almost two decades championing mobile photography as a serious artistic medium. Through interviews, critical essays, exhibitions, competitions, and education, she has helped shape and document the evolution of mobile art on a global scale.Her work has taken her internationally, lecturing on photography and mobile art at institutions and events including the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea, alongside appearances in the UK and Europe. She has served as a juror for international photography and mobile art awards across Portugal, Canada, the United States, South Korea, Italy, and the UK.Joanne is also the founder of *TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com*, one of the first online galleries dedicated exclusively to collectible mobile art, connecting artists with collectors across Europe, the United States, and Asia.Before founding TheAppWhisperer, Joanne worked extensively in print journalism and photographic publishing, including roles at a paparazzi photo agency and as deputy editor of a leading photography magazine. Her freelance journalism, criticism, and commentary have been published widely in both the UK and the US, with bylines in *The Times*, *The Sunday Times*, *The Guardian*, *Popular Photography*, *NikonPro*, *DPReview*, *Which?*, *Vogue Italia*, *LensCulture*, the *BBC*, and more recently, the *Financial Times*, where her published letters on photography continue to contribute to wider conversations around the medium.Alongside her editorial and curatorial work, Joanne’s own photographic practice has been exhibited internationally across the UK, Europe, South Korea, and the United States. Her work increasingly explores themes of grief, loss, death, memory, and the body.Her current research interests centre on grief, death, and poverty, with forthcoming postgraduate study leading towards doctoral research in these areas.Joanne is currently developing new long-form writing and photographic projects and is available for commissions, editorial projects, speaking engagements, and collaborations.Contact: joannetheappwhisperer@gmail.com)
