Mini Mobile Portfolio Reviews (MMPR) – Brand New Section Added To TheAppWhisperer

Either:

• A Series of images (6-10) and a Set of Single images (10)

Total: 20 max (16 minimum)

• A Set of Single images only (10-20)

Total 20 max (10 minimum)

NOTE: If submitting a series, please label and order the images in the sequence that you want them to be seen. Please submit all content via WeTransfer to Joanne@theappwhisperer.com

1) Please indicate how much of your work involves post-production techniques.

2) What mobile camera do you use and which apps have you used to create the images submitted? Please list them.

3) If you have a particular question regarding your work, please include it with your submission.

The MPR will consist of feedback covering:

• Content

This covers the subject matter i.e. what is in the photograph as well as the general approach and overall concept.

• Aesthetics

This covers formal aspects including composition (the arrangement of the elements in the frame), colour, depth of field, blur/sharpness, point of view etc.

• Editing

This covers the selection of images and sequencing (the images in relation to each other).

• General feedback and ways forward

Miranda is a writer, blogger, editor, educator and photographer. She is Editor-at-Large for the quarterly, print edition of Hotshoe contemporary photography magazine (www.hotshoeinternational.com), and was Editor of Frame and Reference, an online hub for galleries, museums and visual arts organisations in the South East UK (www.frameandreference.com) from May 2013-Nov 2014. She has a photography-focused blog, now called The Roaming Eye (http://theroamingeye.wordpress.com) that she has been curating since 2009.

In 2010 Miranda co-founded Tri-Pod (www.tri-pod.co.uk), a creative initiative that supports lens-based artists with research and development of personal photographic Projects in Process. She has also facilitated participatory photographic workshops for street homeless men in London (PhotoVoice and Union Chapel, 2003-4).

Miranda has published work over the last ten years, nationally and internationally, for a range of photography publications and books, including The Times, British Journal of Photography; F2 Freelance Photographer; KATALOG and Gomma’s book, MONO. She has blogged for the New York Photo Festival (2008-9) and the World Photo Organisation (2013). She also writes galley texts and artist statements for a number of photographers and visual artists.

She regularly reviews portfolios – Photomonth (2009-12), Renaissance Photography Prize (2013-2014) and Brighton Photo Fringe (2014)  as well as visits student degree shows  – University of Derby, (2011-14); University of the Creative Arts, Farnham, 2013-14; University of Norwich, 2011.

Miranda has been a judge for a number of photography competitions that include the Annual Hotshoe/Photofusion Members’ Award, 2010-2014 for which she is sole judge; the Series category of the Renaissance Photography Prize 2013; and the Student category for the Association of Photographers (2011). She also delivers and chairs talks including Discovering Your Competitive Side at Photofusion (2014), On Landscape (2014), International Opportunities for MA Photography University of Westminster (2013) and a talk on Black and White photography for the World Photo Organisation (2013).

Miranda has a BA (Hons) in Photography (University of Westminster) and a Master of Research from London Consortium (Birbeck) in Humanities and Cultural Studies (2008). She is currently collaborating on text and image works, all shot on a mobile camera, with an experimental writer and artist.

@MirandaGavin