Tickle Your Fancy – #30

Centrefold magazine is a bi-annual large format (A2) arts and fashion magazine and the latest issue has been entirely photographed with a Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone. Centrefold launched by photographer Andrew Hobbs teamed up with Nokia and commissioned nine photographers to shoot.

The images were taken from around the world including Paris, New York, South Africa, UK and Mexico by Andrew Hobbs, Damon Baker, Peter Hill, Tung Walsh, Ulysse Frechelin, Tang Ting, Leandro Farina and Eric Guilleran – the images appear on full bleed A2 spreads.

Nokia is running a series of campaigns at the moment and has commissioned a number of famous photographers to shoot with the Lumia 1020, including David Bailey, Bruce Weber and Stephen Alvarez.

The magazine looks absolutely breathtaking and although this is not the first editorial project that we’ve seen with smartphones, I’m thinking of Martin Parr teaming up with Flo Heiss back in 2006 wit a book of images shot entirely with a Sony Ericsson camera phone. it is perhaps the most prestigious fashion title running to A2 format that we have seen. Really wonderful.

An interesting article in US based Popular Photography Magazine (one I also used to write for) has published an article focusing on the possibly most talked about photography expression at the moment, ‘the selfie’. This author of this article talks to several photographers and asks them for their meanings behind their selfies. So many thoughts are thrown up, perhaps ones you may not have realised, these include, politics and therapy. One photographer Zev Hoover (just 14 years old) pays huge attention to the backgrounds. Hoover has produced a series of what he calls “littlefolk” self-portraits that have earned him, among other national publicity, a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America.

Fabulous article, read more here

Seventeenth century characters inhabit a deserted Swedish castle in the photo series “A Frozen Tale” by Australian photographer Alexia Sinclair. Sinclair was inspired to create the series after the Swedish government invited her to shoot at Skokloster Castle, an unusually well-preserved 17th century Baroque castle near Stockholm. Shooting at the castle proved a challenge, as the unheated structure drops below freezing in the winter, and there is no electricity. Sinclair discusses the series in the video embedded here.

The images here are outstanding! I love them – view more here and view the video

A Liberian militia commander loyal to the government after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces on a key strategic bridge in Monrovia, Liberia. July 20 2003. Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images

Award-winning photojournalist Chris Hondros was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while covering the Libyan conflict in 2011. As a book of his images and writing is published, Jonathan Klein, CEO of Getty Images, shares his memories.

Incredibly important article, read more here.

Picture: REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch

I love this series in The Telegraph, it’s been running for so long and I view it every single week. This week there are some really stunning images from around the world. I particularly like the one above – ‘German pensioner Volker Kraft uses a step ladder as he decorates an apple tree with Easter eggs in the garden of his summerhouse, in the eastern German town of Saalfeld. Every year since 1965, Volker and his wife Christa have spent up to two weeks decorating the tree with their collection of 10,000 colourful hand-painted Easter eggs in time for Easter celebrations’.

View more here