COLUMNS, Mobile Photo Essays, News

Mobile Photo Essays – New Column On TheAppWhisperer!

2014-07-11 / 1 Comment

We are delighted to announce a brand new Column on theappwhisperer.com entitled ‘Mobile Photo Essays’. This Column will be edited by multi talented and highly qualified Gina Costa (a museum curator and lecturer on 20th century art and photography) and will include full coverage of mobile photo essays, along with interviews with photographers and additional articles. We are so delighted that Gina has agreed to join us and we can’t wait to view your fabulous essays.

Please can you forward your essays to Gina directly here – gcosta9@gmail.com and to myself here – Joanne@theappwhisperer.com. You can choose to create your photo essays using an app, or separately, we really do not mind, we are interested in your great content.

We have a dedicated Facebook group set up for this Column, please join us here. Gina will be adding regularly and contributing to this and we are sure it will follow the same success as our Streets Ahead, Portrait of an Artist and our Mobile Macros columns.

We recently published some very interesting articles to help you get started with your mobile photo essays. If you missed those, please go here and here. They give tips on how to generate content and also some tips on structuring, many more of these will follow.

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)