Letter to Jane – Fabulous Photography iPad Magazine
One area we have been thinking about adding to theappwhisperer.com for some time is reviewing and highlighting iPad Photography magazines. I don’t mean photo app review style magazines, I’m talking more about sophisticated state of the art digital photography magazines.
There are many photography and art iPad magazines available but few that meet the criteria that we’re striving to cover here.
Letter to Jane is the first one that we would like to acknowledge in this new series, as one reviewer put it ‘Letter to Jane is by turns surprising, delightful, sensual, engaging, and very smart. It creates a whole new magazine format, one totally unrelated to anything having to do with “print”. This to me is the key, I am a former print Journalist, writing for magazines and national newspapers was my full time job for many years and became second nature. With the advent of the last recession, so many print magazines folded (pardon the pun) and that gave me a clear path to create theappwhisperer.com.
Enough about me, what I want to express here is that the creation of a truly awesome iPad magazine is a lot harder than many realise. We are going to highlight the ones that fully engage the reader and do not feel like static print replicas.
Letter to Jane was created by Tim Moore, who works as a creative director at 29th Street Publishing. Tim has been creating a wide array of commercial magazine apps for 29th Street, and his experience overflows within the latest Letter to Jane issue.
The ‘Shadows’ issue is so sublime and elegantly designed. I love the clean and simple interface and it’s incredible easy to navigate. The magazine does not follow the traditional ‘rules’ of magazine design, rather there are three specific sections and ‘hidden’ within each, additional multi-media features that will delight. Tim Moore interviews photographers and showcases their work in such a way that any who are featured will take absolute satisfaction from and any who read will feel such warmth. It is totally charming, charismatic, persuasive and alluring – it’s all of these things and more.
The latest magazine title ‘Shadows’ is a reference to the dour monochrome movie Shadows, 1959 by John Cassavetes. The images within it though are vibrant and colourful. Cassavetes work bears a huge creative influence on Tim Moore and that’s such a good thing, for all of us.
I cannot recommend this magazine more highly, I think many of you will be truly delighted to discover it, if you haven’t already.
You can download it here. The latest issue retails for $3.99/£2.49
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)
