The opening exhibition of the fabulous MIRA Mobile Prize is almost upon us – 6 September 2014, next week in Porto, Portugal at 1600 hrs. The overall winning of this competition is Janine Graf and her flying rhino image is pictured below. Over 10,000 postcards with this image have been printed. So, if you can, please book a flight to Porto and marvel at the 50 shortlisted images and works of the jury.
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.
5 Comments
Janine Graf
So happy I could dance a jig in my kitchen right now! I’d give anything to be able to attend in person. Drats. 😀
Joanne Carter
We’re all dancing with you Janine lovely x
Janine Graf
Mmmuah! xoxo
David
Indeed we are!
Janine Graf
Aw, thanks David! 😀