Tickle Your Fancy #40
Welcome back to our fortieth post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to 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.
Fatherhood and Folklore: Behind Scott Alario’s Photographic Fables Read more: Fatherhood and Folklore: Behind Scott Alario’s Photographic Fables
Of course it’s father’s day weekend this weekend and personally it invokes very deep emotional bittersweet thoughts. The sweet comes from the present and of course, that’s where we need to be. So, pushing through, I thought this article from Krystal Grow for Time LightBox really delightful.
“There’s something magical about becoming a parent and entering a mysterious new territory full of unforeseeable challenges and unparalleled joys. Many photographers, meanwhile – constantly peering through the lens in search of answers — maintain a fraught relationship with the very idea of mystery, alternately acting as the spinner of tall tales or the destroyer of fantasy”
The World’s Love Affair With Football: A History in Pictures
Of course it’s The World Cup: 32 nations, 64 matches, 1 billion viewers, 1 winner. Wonderful video with highlights of classic goals and great moments.
People Hiring Photographers To Shoot Everyday Life
There’s a new trend to hire professional photographers to document everyday activities – wonderful, love this.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
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Tracy Mitchell Griggs
Lovely images by Scott Alario and sweet portfolio for Father’s Day ..