Tickle Your Fancy – #10 – NSFW
Welcome back to our tenth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘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.
We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections…
‘Healing Sgt. Warren’ – 2013, Los Angeles Times
A Soldier’s Wife
A deeply sensitive and powerful photographic essay about an Iraq war veteran who suffers from PTSD and alcoholism. This story is told through Tom’s wife’s eyes and portrays their relationship, it’s incredibly moving, in fact it made me cry…
Simon Baker: ‘Europe’s No Longer The Home of Photography’
EMAHO magazine interviews Simon Baker of Tate Modern London, the institute’s first curator of Photography and International Art. It’s a fabulous interview with Simon describing among other things the Asian photography market. Not one to be missed.
Banky’s Video Of A ‘Rebel Rocket Attack’ … on Dumbo
A video by British street artist Banksy, which starts with what appears to be a group of Islamist rebels firing a rocket into the sky and cheering but before long Disney’s flying elephant Dumbo character falls to the ground. Banksy is currently involved with a month-long ‘residency’ on the streets of New York.
Leigh Ledare: The Man Who Photographs His Mother Having Sex – In Pictures – NSFW
‘Is Leigh Ledare just out to shock?’ asks The Guardian as they discuss Leigh’s work. ‘His decision to chronicle his troubled relationship with his mother, he says, started when he returned home one Christmas. “I arrived home not having seen her for a year and a half,” he recalls. “She knew I was coming and opened the door naked.” When Leigh walked in past the bedroom, “a young man, almost exactly my age, was sprawled out naked. He rolled over to see me, saying hello, before rolling back over and returning to sleep.” Ledare interpreted this welcome as “her way of announcing to me what she was up to, at this period in her life – almost as though to say, ‘Take it or leave it.’ I had a camera and began making photos of her then. She was the catalyst.”
You read more here at The Guardian and view a selection of works from the project. They will also be displayed in Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood, Identity at the Photographers’ Gallery London, 11 October to 5 January 2014.
Damien Hirst: ‘I felt the power of art from a very young age’
Damien Hirst has completed an ABC children’s book including the dead shark and diamond skull. In this interview with The Guardian, Hirst explains more…
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)
