Tickle Your Fancy – #16
Welcome back to our sixteenth 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…
Lara Stone, for French Vogue, October 2010.
Photograph by Mert Alas & Marcus Piggott
Beauty and Bruises
A very interesting project by Ariana Page Russell using herself as the model and proudly displaying her dermatographia skin condition in such a way that’s truly unique.
Saul Leiter Obituary
You may find this strange but I passionately enjoy reading obituaries in national newspapers, to me, they are a final symbol of respect and remembrance and are usually written incredibly well.
This one in The Guardian by Sean O’Hagan based on Saul Leiter is no exception. Saul Leiter died earlier this week aged 89 and I’ve admired his work for a long time. Leiter was using Kodachrome colour 20 years before the likes of Stephen Shore and William Eggleston.
Brazilian Stories and Selfies Through a Pinhole
The New York Times Lens Blog details images taken by students in Brazil. Tatiana Altberg showed children how to make pinholes, often crude but the results speak for themselves, admirable project.
Mert & Marcus: Fashion Photography’s Reigning Auteurs
‘Mert Alas and Marcus Piggott—affectionately known in fashion circles as simply Mert & Marcus—live a charmed life. As art-conscious club kids in the ’90s, they fell backward into fashion, each other’s arms, and, most important, photography’.
Urbanitychic – Spotlight Interview with Matt Darlington
I adore this website, Urbanitychic.com, it’s beautifully done and ramped with unique content. Despite not being a new interview (there are plenty of those), I was struck by the photography of Matt Darlington, a creative commercial photographer from Cirencester, UK. He has worked on some stupendous commissions with Dior and Selfridges to name a few. Don’t miss this…
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)
