Tickle Your Fancy – #19
Welcome back to our nineteenth 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 by Alyssa Monks
Art or Photography?
Absolutely stunning article about Alyssa Monks a painter with acute photographic detail. Her vision is immense. This is an interview alongside some of her work.
Images of the Year 2013
There are a lot of these type of articles circulating around the web at the moment. This one in American Photo, I feel is really excellent, it’s a selection of ‘some of the strongest images from the past 12 months, with an emphasis on commercial work.
The Most Frigid City on Earth
With a title like that, we know you’ll want to know more 😉 This story though is about Steeve Luncker a Geneva based photographer who as an employee for Agence VU, captures urban ‘mosts’ – could be the richest city, the most violent – this time though it was the coldest – Yakutsk in Northern Russia. With daily temperatures not reaching more than -40 F. This tells of his experience living with a family for 10 days and his cameras freezing up after 15 minutes.
Inspiring Photographers Committed To Making a Difference
Inspiring article about a group of five photographers giving back to their communities – amazing – ‘artists compelled to make a difference’.
The Ghostly Art of Crochetdermy
Fabulous! Crocheted animals with life-like appearances photographed in real-life incredible settings. Fun, quaint, fascinating and intriguing.
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)
