Tickle Your Fancy – Our Latest New Section – #2
Welcome back to our second post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. We launched this last week and it’s already becoming very popular. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art.
Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site.
Take a look at our selections for this weekends reading session, hope you enjoy these…
Image © Frank W Ockenfels III
The Lumiere Photobooth: A Fully Mobile Traveling Tintype Portrait Studio
This is no ordinary mobile home, a Texas based married pair of photographers have launched the Lumerie to hopefully ‘revive the lost profession of the itinerant photographer’. 150 years ago, it was common to find tintype wagons traveling to different cities, shooting and developing tintypes on site.
Internally the wagons have a modern and flexible studio space, lightproof darkroom for developing plates and modern conveniences including air con – fascinating – go here.
Interview: Photographer Frank W. Ockenfels III On Shooting Breaking Bad
Fascinating and intriguing interview with photographer Frank W Ockenfels III interviewed by Stan Horaczek of Pop Photo (whom I also used to write for). This is a comprehensive interview and whether you’re a fan or not of the show, you will be captivated – go here.
Go Takayam
Wonderful short exert with Go Takayam a Japanese photographer who over the past three years has been pursuing his own ethnic passion working on several personal projects in China. In this article he discusses an image of a Chinese family that he had just met who were in the midst of their first annual anniversary of their lost six year old son – powerful image – go here.
Philip Bloom With Too Many Cameras
Philip Bloom a British filmmaker explains in this video how switching from filmaking to street stills helps him to be ‘more selective’ but he couldn’t quite manage to get out there with one camera and one lens and instead hit the streets with up to six cameras, he then laments ‘I’m not doing it right’. Fascinating video – go here.
Getty Releases Thousands of Images With New “Open Content” Program
The Getty Trust has launched a new program and has released in this first batch 4,600 high quality digital versions of art free into the public domain. The first release includes nearly 600 photographs and there are plans to roll out more. For more information – go here.
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)
One Comment
Laurence Zankowski
Joanne,
A few years back Apple did a series of behind the scenes podcasts with Baz Lurhman as he was filming” Australia ” . There is a podcast about the Unit Set Photographer, a young man , as he went about his task . Great insights from him on his process also.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/music/id278396471?i=44028639&mt=2
It is podcast number 9 if the sequence is right.