Why Mister, Why? Updated iPad Photo Book
Ten years after the U.S.-led war on Iraq, photojournalist Geert van Kesteren releases an extended and updated iPad App edition of his international acclaimed and award winning photo book WHY MISTER, WHY? – IRAQ, 2003-2004. An in-depth view and reflection of contradicting realities – from the perspective of the ‘common’ people – that reveal why this war was doomed to fail.
With more than 400 images, diary notes, extended captions and citations this iPad App reveals the realities on the ground and provides deeper understanding of the causes that shaped the instability and violence that keep terrorizing the Iraqi people up to this day.
From the large volume of photographic work Dutch photojournalist Geert van Kesteren produced in Iraq in 2003 and 2004, he compiled the book WHY MISTER, WHY? published by Artimo in 2004. The publication won various prestigious awards, became an instant-classic and has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions. In this new photodocumentary-app, Van Kesteren adds 166 images to the original 237 photographs of the book, taken in the period 2003-2004. The app provides deeper understandings and context with a new foreword, extended captions and citations from those who featured in his work.
This app is available for $9.99/£6.99 and you can download it here.
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.
