Tickle Your Fancy – #18 – NSFW
Welcome back to our eighteenth 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 – Ophelia Wynne
Are Camera Phones Destroying Photography?
An interesting article in The Guardian, well written but equally one that we’re all very familiar with. I remember these same ‘conversations’ swirling around when digital cameras first emerged (waaaay before camera phones). It was the same thing then, I can go further back to when the first zoom lenses became popular and there was considerable talk of whether a zoom lens could capture an image as well as a prime and so it goes on. Well worth a read and taken with a pinch of salt too, I think.
Life With Reindeer Whisperers
We’re all ‘Whisperers’ in one form or another 😉 and this wonderful article in the The Telegraph by Lucy Davies describes living with Reindeer Whisperers in Northern Norway. Photographer Erika Larsen embeds herself within the 70,000 strong Sámi nomadic lifestyle. An incredible study.
Lucian Freud, My Father, Hardly Father Material
Wow, this article really struck a personal cord with me and anyone that knows me intimately (and there are few 😉 will know why. David McAdam Freud was one of many children of the womanizer and famous artist Lucian Freud. He grew up largely and grossly neglected by his father and consequently felt rejected and indeed jealous of some of his other siblings seemingly close relationship, paternally speaking. Unfortunately, David himself has repeated this cycle of abuse but there’s a twist, an awareness if you like.
Using Instagram And Pinterest For Your Arts Organization
Another great article by The Guardian this week, it explains how to maximize usage from Instagram and Pinterest to help curate and showcase your collection of art in a ‘playful manner’.
Interview With Ophellia Wynne
Fascinating documentary photographer Ophelia Wynne will soon be exhibiting images at The Other Club, a fabulous pop-up club for women in central London. This interview is a great way to find out more about her work and current project.
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)
One Comment
Carlos
Great article in the Guardian concerning camera phone. Well worth a read.