Tickle Your Fancy – #17
Welcome back to our seventeenth 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…
Photograph: Mackbooks
Nelson Mandela And British Popular Culture
It’s been quite a week notwithstanding the news of Nelson Mandela’s death, something that has touched us all and will continue to do so. Perhaps one of his greatest quotes, to me at least and representing the absolute unique ability of the man to dispel any bitterness, in 1964 he said, “I have fought against white domination and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But, if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die’.
Truly a remarkable man but what I wanted to mention here for our Tickle Your Fancy column was Mandela’s influence over British Popular Culture, he cast a wide net. You must read this article in The Telegraph, it’s fascinating, not only for the buildings named after him, not for the inspired Live Aid concert but also for his ‘grooving’ whilst sitting next to the Queen at the Royal Albert Hall, fabulous read.
Invisible Mother Portraiture
Really interesting images in The Guardian showing Victorian mothers hiding themselves, whilst trying to capture portraits of their children. They disguised themselves as chairs, sofas, even curtains.
Photographer Creates Fantasy Worlds In Tiny Studio
This is amazing, Korean artist Lee JeeYoung creates incredibly fantasy worlds to fit inside her tiny studio – 12 x 13.5 x 8 feet. Stage of Mind is part of a series and was created without any photo manipulation whatsoever. They represent Lee’s journey of self-discovery and that’s why she’s featured in each one.
Stage of Mind will be presented by the OPIOM Gallery in Opio, France from February 7 to March 7, 2014
The Paradise That Is Le Havre
The title is tongue in cheek, Le Havre is the least loved of all French seaside towns to many. Elodie Tann captured the boredom that leaks from the pours of the residents, whether that’s the cats with dyed fur or the group drug taking and sex, it’s a harsh portfolio full of despair.
Interview with Margaret Yescombe
Very interesting interview with Margaret Yescombe a freelance Creative Director, Photographer & Retoucher currently based in London from her photo studio in Hackney. Her images are fascinating and of great interest to many, don’t miss this interview.
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
Laurence Zankowski
Joanne,
When doing passport photos on the airbase, even tiny babies, barely several months old, the hidden parent technique was used. Quite often actually.
Next, sorry, but Lee Jee Young’s work is a complete rip off of Sandy Skoglund’s work from the very early 80s. We live to forget, seems is the by word of the 21st century artist.
http://learner.org/courses/globalart/work/242/index.html
Just google search for more of her images.
Be well,
Laurence