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Tickle Your Fancy – #20 – NSFW

Welcome back to our twentieth 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…

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Image : Ana Casas Broda, Kinderwunsch from the series Playroom, 2010 © Ana Casas

Sean O’Hagan of The Guardian Photography section writes about his favourite photography shows of 2013. Have to agree Susan Brights exemplary group show Home Truths: Photography, Motherhood and Identity exploring images from Elina Brotherus and Tierney Gearon amongst others was amazing. I also agree that the Only In England exhibition at the Science Museum, London, in which Martin Parr acknowledged the late Tony Ray-Jones was incredible. I spoke with Martin Parr at the Private View and it was stupendous event.

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Surreal World

Great article taking a closer look at surreal photography, beautiful fantasy and exotica.

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Be a Woman

Fabulous series of images created by Hana Seweryn of a woman’s life photographed behind a backlit screen to create intense shadowy vignettes.

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Century Old Negatives From Shackleton’s Antarctic Expedition Discovered

Incredible, it’s almost one hundred years ago that Sir Ernest Shackleton embarked on an expedition across the Antarctic, most of the images taken have been viewed already but a box of 22 unseen and unprocessed negatives taken by the group’s photographer has just been unearthed.

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Astronaut Selfie

As 2013 is now known as the year of the selfie it seems only fitting that Astronaut Mike Hopkins wanted to join the fray. His image though is something else.

Take a look here

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)