Tickle Your Fancy #36 – NSFW
Welcome back to our thirty sixth 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…
Powerful Photos Illustrate the Real Damage of Verbal Abuse
Incredibly powerful portfolio of images by photography Rich Johnson entitled ‘Weapon of Choice’ – represents the abuser’s choice to use these words to harm – this project was a collaboration between photographer Johnson, make-up artists and victims of both verbal and physical abuse.
Bring female artists out of storage
Is art male? Most institutions would have us think so. The disparities are startling. In 1989 the feminist Guerrilla Girls discovered that fewer than 5% of the modern works in the Metropolitan Museum in New York were by women, but 85% of the nudes were female. It is usually possible to see works by one or two women in an entire museum, but you could spend hours looking.
Elegance and Seduction in Photographs
‘Constantin Joffee’, American Vogue, September 1945
Outstanding images – an exhibition of more than 150 pictures, on show until the end of May at the Palais Gallieria in Paris.
Photographer Camille Lepage Killed in Central African Republic
The body of French photojournalist Camille Lepage was found in the Bouar region of Central African Republic, the French presidency said in a statement on Tuesday. Lepage, a young photographer committed to the deep documentation of under-covered conflicts in eastern and central Africa, was 26.
Photographing War: Tyler Hicks
“The thing about war photography, and the thing about combat, is in a still image when you strip away everything, when you take away all the sound and explosions, and bullets, and the adrenaline, and the personal experience of being there, sometimes you’re left with something very different. When I look at these pictures later, and I do look at these pictures a lot…I remind myself. I think I owe it to myself and to these people to always remember this. Sometimes people say, ‘you should try to compartmentalize things and try to put this behind you.’ And I say “No, that would be disrespectful.”
Tyler Hicks is a senior photographer at The New York Times. He was recently awarded the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Photography, first place for News Picture Story in the News division of the 71st Pictures of the Year International Competition, and the Robert Capa gold medal from the Overseas Press Club.
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)
One Comment
Laurence Zankowski
She was just 26.
Getting tired of fanboy /fan girl cos play comic con centered twitter, when this reality is going on.
We have lost so much, a 7.62 round and it is over. A machete swing, maimed.
We are we now.
Laurence