Tickle Your Fancy – #25
Welcome back to our twenty fifth 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…
Incredible X-Ray Photographs of Plants & Animals
©Arie van’t Rie
A very interesting technique by Arie van’t Riet, a Dutch Physicist-Artist who has creatrf incredibly stunning coloured x-ray images of plants and animals. He started by taking an X-ray of of his paintings and was buoyed by the compelling image that he kept experimenting and has now built up a very interesting portfolio of images.
Riet photographs the original objects using silver bromide X-ray film which is similar to black and white negative, he then digitizers, inverts and colours parts of the image in Photoshop and the results are fabulous.
I was very intrigued by this project, not least because I feel it’s something that could be replicated with mobile photography. Having taken the original image with a mobile camera, perhaps you could then photograph it in a similar way and once digitalised, you could colourise the image with apps. I would love to see some example of this process and if it’s even possible, so please send them into me, if you choose to experiment and I will feature them on the site.
Riet recently gave a TED talk about this process, I must admit I’m a real fan of TED talks. To watch this one, just press ‘play’ above.
To view more of Riet’s work, go here
Masters of Intimate Portraiture
©Tony Fouhse
A very interesting interview with Tony Fouhse, a documentary photographer who worked with ‘sometimes a prostitute and all-the time heroin addict’ Stephanie for eight months, following her downfall and recovery with intimate images. Unfortunately, in many ways, their relationship and friendship grew and this then built up moral dilemmas for Tony, including the request to go buy $30 of heroin. It’s a captivating story in words and pictures. The article continues by looking at other artists work and discusses the ‘challenges faced when photographers choose their own intimate relationships as subjects or when relationships grow out of long-term projects’
‘Wallportrait’s – An Interview with Creator Bear KirkPatrick
©Bear Kirkpatrick
A fascinating interview with Bear Kirkpatrick discussing his early influences and his outstanding incredible photo project ‘Wallportraits’, which actually all came about by ‘accident’ one day, when working in his studio with his friend and some clothes he had borrowed from a vintage store. The images are really incredible.
‘Nightmare at the Museum’
The Tate Britain will be employing a ‘battalion’ of robots to live stream what they see at night to remote users on the internet, who can actually take control and steer them around to specific pieces that they want to view. Each robot is equipped with a torch to aid visibility. This project is called ‘After Dark’ and was born out of the IK Prize contest that was hosted by the museum designed to ‘enhance public enjoyment of art’.
To take a look at the video and to to learn more, go here
Dame Vivienne Westwood’s Photo-T-Shirt Campaign with Photographer Andy Gotts
The Guardian reports on Dame Vivienne Westwood’s photo campaign to promote Greenpeace’s efforts to Save the Arctic, which has also been backed by George Clooney, Chris Martin and Paloma Faith.
Fascinating and important project, read more here
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)
