The Guardian Showcases Mobile Photography
The UK’s leading national broadsheet, The Guardian, today publishes a supplement on photography, which includes a section devoted to mobile photography. Written by The App Whisperer’s own columnist, Richard Gray, the section gives a detailed analysis of photography’s youngest and most vibrant sub-genre. The section looks at why mobile is such a popular sub-genre, how it is shaking up photography, how business is using it, some of the key movers in the genre and the various killer apps that are driving its popularity. The inclusion of a specific section on iPhone photography in such a serious photography review is perhaps a mark of where our sub-genre is today. If you’d like to read the full article, pick up a copy of The Guardian today.
I must admit that The Guardian is one of my favorite broadsheets and I have written for it myself many times over. In fact, I even remember writing an article on ‘camera phones’ for them, whilst Technology Editor of a leading Camera Magazine title, many years ago. This was way before the invention of the ‘smart phone’, but it was key to the movement.
Wonderful read Richard, very well done you!
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
