Tickle Your Fancy – #32
Welcome back to our thirty second 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.
Deutsche Börse Photography Prize: Alberto García-Alix
Lucy Davies at The Telegraph speaks with Alberto Garcia-Alix a 19 year old law student in Madrid as he looks close to scoop the Deutsche Borse Photography Prize. ‘‘I didn’t know anything about photography,’ he says. ‘All I wanted to do was take photos of motorbikes.’ The timing was more propitious than either he or his parents could have imagined, coming within days of the death of General Franco, who had held Spain under his dictatorial thumb for nearly 35 years. Franco’s demise would herald a new era for both the country and García-Alix’.
Nan Goldin Druggy Insider Reportage Photography to Children’s Photography
‘Nan Goldin is best known for a work she first showed 35 years ago. The Ballad of Sexual Dependency is a series of photographs of her bohemian, drug-taking, sexually avid friends during the hedonistic heyday of Eighties New York. Sensual, sleazy, exuberant, the images were shot in a casual, “snapshot” fashion that would come to influence a generation of fledgling photographers, who fell into her truth-telling wake’.
With all this in mind, it comes as a surprise to learn that her latest endeavor is a book of photographs of children – really fascinating – read more here.
Maids of Lebanon
There are currently 200,000 migrant domestic workers in Lebanon, a small country of four million. Maids save on rent, bills, and food costs living with their employers.
Caritas Migrant Center, an NGO which aids and shelters maids who have run away from their employers, are receiving between three and six cases of abuse per day, from abuses that range from rape, physical violence, trafficking and starvation.
Artist Talk – Lorna Simpson
Waterbearer, 1986 © Lorna Simpson
Deutsche Börse shortlisted artist Lorna Simpson (b. 1960) speaks about her work.
Nominated for her exhibition Lorna Simpson (Retrospective) at Jeu de Paume, Paris (28 May – 1 September 2013).
Over the past 30 years, Lorna Simpson has created an extensive body of work incorporating performance, photography, text, film, drawing and collage. Her work engages issues including race, gender and aspects of American identity, and it is through her subtle interplay of text, image and other media that she challenges stereotypes and destabilises assumptions.
At The Photographer’s Gallery, London – Sunday 11 May, 2014 – 16:00
Zack Seckler’s Slightly Sarcastic Images
“Safari,” 2011. “As many people guess, this gorilla was not actually on the top of this vehicle,” Seckler says. “I shot the gorilla for about 20 minutes as it posed for me. It was a star performance” –© Zack Seckler
Zack Seckler started his photography career in a tried-and-true way: shooting assignments for newspapers and wire services in Boston and later in New York City. But he soon decided to break out from straight documentary work. “One thing that frustrated me with photojournalism was having to follow the ethical guidelines of not interfering with a scene or asking someone to do something,” explains Seckler, 33. “There would be times when I was just waiting for a person to repeat something—you’d see them do it once and hope they’d do it again. Just waiting. It can be very frustrating.”
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)
