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 photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
One Comment
Carlos
Great article in the Guardian concerning camera phone. Well worth a read.