Tickle Your Fancy – #14 – NSFW
Welcome back to our fourteenth 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…
Image – ©Penelope Koliopoulou
When Love Sucks, Why Not Date Yourself?
I think we’ve all felt like this at one time or another, or maybe even more times that that! Photographer Penelope Koliopoulou is intrigued by relationships and decided to create a project, entitled ‘Self Portraits’ where she posed as both halves of different couples. In this interview by Vice Eletkra Kotsoni asks Penelope whether being in a virtual or otherwise relationship with yourself, is a good idea…
A Woman Ages, Dies, Decays, And Reincarnates In This Wondrous Stop-Motion Video
Ruby from Emma Allen on Vimeo.
Multimedia artist Emma Allen, who is skilled in special effects make-up, created a wonderful video called ‘Ruby’ which shows the metamorphosis of a woman. Over the course of five days, Allen meticulously painted and photographed her face. The video shows the fascinating progression of her aging, dying, and decaying, but what’s worth watching is the glittering transformation that happens hereafter—watch till the end to see what happens.
Unseen Dennis Hopper photographs to go on display in UK for first time
More than 400 previously unseen photographs from the 1960s, which were discovered in cardboard boxes after the death of the actor Dennis Hopper, are to go on display in Britain for the first time. The Royal Academy of Arts on Friday announced details of an exhibition called Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album.
Find more details here and booking
Alan Denney’s Photographs of Stoke Newington Since The 1970s
‘The north-east London enclave of Stoke Newington hasn’t always been synonymous with artisan brioche and vinyl dads with babies called Flo or Albert strapped to their chests. Like most other bits of London that don’t belong to the Duke of Westminster’s property portfolio, it’s gradually become gentrified into what it is today – going from one of Hackney’s poorest areas, to a middle-class hotspot where community spirit means protecting your Whole Foods from rioters with every piece of cardboard you can get your hands on.
Photographer Alan Denney has been documenting Stoke Newington – along with its surrounding areas, Stamford Hill, Finsbury Park, Highbury and Dalston – since he moved there from Kent in the 1970s’, via Vice.
Walmart Parking Lot Residents Captured In Camera
Well, this is an unusual project, I didn’t realise people actually lived in Walmart carparks, it’s certainly not something that would be ‘allowed’ over here in the UK. I’m quite sure the police would move you on. However, Nolan Conway has not only covered this project but also another photographing people he met at various McDonalds around the US. In fact he visited 50 McDonald’s in 22 states. This project though, entitled ‘Waking Up at Walmart” is about people that appear to live in the carparks at various times of the year, it’s quite fascinating.
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)
