Tickle Your Fancy – #13 – NSFW
Welcome back to our thirteenth 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…
©Shauna:Sean Lee
Photo Editing Process At the National Geographic – Interview
Olivier Laurent, Acting Deputy Editor of the British Journal of Photography, (a magazine that our Head of Technical Hardware, Kevin Carter writes for as a Technical Editor), this week published an interview with the Photo Editors of National Geographic a magazine celebrated for its commitment to photographers, who ‘enjoy a rare trust and financial backing in an industry whose budgets have been decimated in recent years’.
Breast Cancer as Death Sentence in Uganda
Lynsey Addario, a contract photographer for The New York Times, went to Uganda in July on assignment with Denise Grady, who was pursuing a story about early cancer detection and treatment in Uganda. Ms. Addario, reached via phone from London, where she lives, spoke with James Estrin. Their conversation has been edited.
Wanksy: celebrating Britain’s worst graffiti art
Tongue in cheek look at some of the UK’s most horrendous graffiti art – ‘Not all graffiti achieves Banksy-like status … Wanksy’s well-aimed satire highlights the mundane, from pedestrian graffiti on street signs to animals given giant knobs’.
Shauna : Sean Lee – NSFW – Contains explicit content
‘Photography, as we all know, can be deceptive. Its ambiguous relation with reality and its capacity to delude us into believing that the images it offers are ‘true’ and ‘objective’ are precisely the source of its fascination. Young Singaporean Sean Lee uses this aspect of photography in a decidedly unsettling manner—even more so because what he depicts is in itself unsettling’ says Christian Caujolle.
Portraits of Costume Owners at Home
Michael Zhang from PetaPixel glimpses into world of Klaus Pichler who in turn has been looking into the subject of costumes for the past few years. Between 2011 and 2013, Pichler visited many costume owners in their homes, asking them to pose among the spaces and objects of their life while taking on the appearance of their “alter egos.” The resulting series is titled “Just the Two of Us.” The series contains 35 images. Pichler’s images aim to capture knowledge about the people behind the masks without actually showing them.
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)
2 Comments
Laurence Zankowski
Joanne,
Sean Lee took the Cindy Sherman aesthetic and pushed it . Got give credit for living the scene. Might not float in most folks view of art/ photography. Courageous work.
Be well
Laurence
Laurence Zankowski
And the cosplayer /costume makers, the two that felt truly disturbed to me were the large teddy bear( one can think of aloisius , brideshead revisited) and the white wolf . Just an opinion
Be well
Laurence