Tickle Your Fancy – #5 – NSFW
Welcome back to our fifth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. We launched this five weeks ago 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…
©Ren Hang
The Art of Taboo – Ren Hang
A wonderful interview with radical Chinese artist Ren Hang who manages to ‘desexualise’ photographed naked bodies.
Tim Hetherington British Photographic Exhibition Opens Today
Tim Hetherington died in the Libyan civil war in 2011, he was a fabulous photographer with a ‘gift for putting people at ease’. He described himself as an ‘image maker’ rather than a traditional war photographer and he was more than happy to use mobile photography in his work to capture intimate moments.
Troi Anderson
A focus on Troi Anderson a fine art, documentary and commercial photographer and of his image ‘Healing Ceremony’ which reflects, Espirtismo, the practice of communcation with ancestral spirits through trance possession, found throughout the Caribbean and Latin America.
ASMP Warns Photographers About New Facebook ToS
The American Society of Photographers feels you should be ‘wary of planned changes on Facebook’ – interesting read and one to be aware of.
Mum Allows Her 4 Year Old To Complete Her Drawings & Finalises A Brilliant Series
Mica Angela Hendricks is an Illustrator, graphic artist and mother. Her 4 year old daughter decided to share her sketch book, and despite Mica’s hesitancy she was delighted with the outcome.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
One Comment
Laurence zankowski
Joanne,
Great series. This selection is the most powerful so far. I photographed those heading into conflict as part of my duties at an airbase. Some came back in caskets. All came back changed.
The four year old work probably opens up so much more, can not wait to see other parents doing this and then have a huge show online of the work. So inspiring. No self conscious inhibitions with the 4 yr old. We should be so open when we create as adults.
Be well
Laurence
p.s. the ASMP section should be posted everywhere. Get off Facebook!