Tickle Your Fancy #41
Welcome back to our forty first 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.
This week we look at some incredible photographs Tif Hunter using the tintype processing technique to capture the winners of the Jerwood Fiction uncovered prize. We also link to the wonderful iPPA awards in pictures, very fabulous indeed. The photographer, historian and hispanophile Gerald Howson, who has died aged 88, had a zest for life and compassion for humanity, along with a meticulous eye for detail, that led him to excel in a number of fields – we link to a wonderful obituary. We also link to a fabulous interview with Ed Kashi a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his work and we adore recent New York transplant Ashley Garner’s photography, part fashion and part dreamscape, often combining multiple self-reflective elements into each image.
We hope you enjoy these articles over the weekend…
Tintype portraits of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize winners – in pictures
Bernardine Evaristo, author of Mr Loverman (Penguin). Photograph: Tif Hunter
Photographer Tif Hunter‘s portraits use the tintype processing technique, a wet-plate process which was first invented in the 1850s. Their intensity suits the British authors announced today as winners of the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered prize, whose novels, short stories and graphic novels have been singled out as outstanding works that deserve a wider audience
iPhone photography awards 2014 – in pictures
Michael O’Neal from San Francisco, US – first place in the animals category
Smartphones have made photography more accessible than ever before, a fact celebrated by the iPhone photography awards. Now in its seventh year, the contest attracted entries from 17 countries. Here is a selection of the winning images
Gerald Howson obituary
‘One of a set of photographs taken by Gerald Howson in Poland during the cold war, which were not published at the time and remained unseen by the public for half a century’
The photographer, historian and hispanophile Gerald Howson, who has died aged 88, had a zest for life and compassion for humanity, along with a meticulous eye for detail, that led him to excel in a number of fields. Only 10 days before he died, despite his evident frailty, he was surrounded by friends from the worlds of art, music and academia, at the opening of a remarkable exhibition of black and white photos that he had taken in Poland at the height of the cold war.
Shoot Stories: Ed Kashi
‘A young refugee girl sits quietly during a celebration for the last day of school in the village of Shirvanli, near the town of Aghdam, Azerbaijan Photo: ED KASHI / VII’
Fabulous interview with Ed Kashi a photojournalist, filmmaker and educator dedicated to documenting the social and political issues that define our times. A sensitive eye and an intimate relationship to his subjects are signatures of his work.
One to Watch: Ashley Garner
Photo Ashley Garner
Recent New York transplant Ashley Garner’s photography is part fashion and part dreamscape, often combining multiple self-reflective elements into each image.
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.
