Tickle Your Fancy – #29
Welcome back to our twenty ninth 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…
Isobel Adderley
I came across Isobel Adderley’s blog this week and adore her work, it’s unique and so punchy.
Faces Behind Your Food
A really fascinating interview by Lucy Davis with Jackie Nickerson a former fashion photographer, shooting for Vogue and Vanity Fair who fell in love with South Africa and local Zimbabweans. Jackie gravitated to where the locals worked in the fields. After a few weeks she bought a small flatbed truck and started to travel – to rural places in South Africa, Malawi and Mozambique as well as all over Zimbabwe. Jackie has created several series’ of unique images, ones that will stay with you.
Annie Leibovitz Shoots the Game of Thrones Cast for Vanity Fair
Annie Leibovitz is one of my all time favourite photographers, I love her work very much. Popular Photography magazine published this article in the week, the shoot was for the most recent cover of Vanity Fair, a publication with which Leibovitz has a long history.
It’s fascinating, check out the behind the scenes video above.
Photojournalist Photojournalist Given Humanitarian Award
A really fascinating story with strong ethics, read the full article here and watch the video above.
VSCO Announces $100k Scholarship Fund For Creatives
Sticking to their mantra “by creatives, for creatives”, Visual Supply Co. has announced the VSCO Artist Initiative fund: a $100,000 scholarship fund that seeks to “provide artists the resources to pursue their creative vision.”
The fund is starting out at $100K and will be divided up amongst the recipients, of which there are currently eight.
Not to be missed, add your content to the VSCO Grid here. Here’s the VSCO application page too.
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)
