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‘Impossible’ Interview with Claude Peschel Dutombe
Today, we are delighted to publish our eighteenth ‘Impossible’ article (to view the others, go here), this time we are featuring the son of a playwright and a film director, Claude Peschel Dutombe. Born and raised in Berlin and Dutombe has made Asia his home for more than 15 years now. Growing up with strong creative influences, his artistic vision was shaped early on by exposure to filmmaking and extensive travel — and he has mostly made Asian and Middle Eastern themes the subject of his creative work ever since. Don’t miss this…
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Instagram Updated With Discovery and Caption Editing
In this update, Instagram are continuing to improve the Explore page by making it faster to find people you want to follow. With this in mind, you’ll see that the Explore icon at the bottom of your screen has changed to a magnifying glass. When you open Explore, you’ll now see two tabs: Photos and People. The Photos tab has not changed. It contains the same scrolling grid of photos and videos you already know. The new People tab highlights interesting accounts for you to discover.
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Latest LensCulture Article Published by Joanne Carter with Helen Breznik – Mobile Photography
I’m so delighted to announce that the latest article as Contributing Editor to LensCulture has just been published. This time, I interviewed the incredibly talented Helen Breznik, she’s a magnificent inspiration to so many mobile photographers. “My photography is a place where there are no limits. A place where I can be fearless, where I can be whomever I like. Where I can escape from the ordinary to an idyllic world. I create characters that are not necessarily “me”, but they are a reflection of what appeals to me.” —Helen Breznik, in conversation with LensCulture contributing editor Joanne Carter To read the complete article and admire her wonderful images, please…
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Streets Ahead – Challenge 7 – Steal a Moment
Welcome to the showcase for our seventh challenge ‘Steal a Moment’. The objective of these challenges is to help us collectively practice and perhaps learn some new techniques. Each challenge will be based either on a shooting technique or perhaps a theme. We announced this challenge within our Streets Ahead Facebook group and it features fabulous mobile photography taken on the street using frames such as windows and doorways to create a ‘frame within a frame’. We would like Streets Ahead to be and interactive group, and for members to try to participate in the challenges. If you are a woman street photographer, please join our growing community (see links…
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The GoPro Camera For The Visually Impaired Photographer – TheAppWhisperer
We are delighted to publish our latest article to our Photo Education & Accessibility.There are many photographers and artists with special needs, whether this relates to visual issues even bordering on blindness (yes it’s true), to deafness (something that I have) to many other difficulties that people experience, these include mental health issues, physical issues and more. We want to ensure that whatever your difficulty you can still enjoy photography and art, it’s so therapeutic. Our Photo Education & Accessibility Editor, Luis Perez is an Apple Distinguished Educator whose work focuses on accessibility and inclusive design. He received his doctorate in special education from the University of South Florida in…
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Winners Announced For Mobile Art > L’arte è Mobile – Festival FuturoPresente 2014
I am so delighted to announce the winners of the Mobile Art > L’arte è Mobile – Festival FuturoPresente 2014 awards hosted by Giancarlo Beltrame. The international jury, comprised of myself Founder and Editorial Director of TheAppWhisperer as well as Columnist for Vogue and Contributing Editor to LensCulture as well as Gianluigi Colin, Art Director of the most popular Italian daily newspaper, Corriere della Sera, Gina Costa, Professor of 20th Century art and photography and curator the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, Nicki Fitz-Gerald, editor of iPhoneography Central, and Andrea Bigiarini, writer, digital artist and founder of NEM – New Era Museum. The first prize goes to…
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Russia To Ban iPhone and iPad From 2015
According to a report in the International Business Times, Russia is set to ban the iPhone and iPad from 2015 ‘as a result of a new law that forces online services operating in the country to store their data locally’. This law doesn’t just affect any device that uses Apple’s US based iCloud servers but also potentially Facebook and Twitter too. A report from Progorod claims,"the internet ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev believes that Apple will not have enough time to move all the data storage to Russian territory by 2015". As many of you will have heard last week Vitaly Milonov a Russian politician stated that Tim Cook should be banned…
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‘Impossible’ Tutorial – Double Exposures With The Instant Lab
We’re delighted to be working closer with The Impossible Project team as we continue to branch out and expand our reach with all things related to mobile photography. Analog post-processing of mobile images is becoming more and more popular and we’re going to make sure our readers are fully briefed on this very exciting development. The Impossible Project is in many ways leading the way, but there is also a growing community of mobile artists and photographers experimenting with other analog post processing techniques in an attempt to make their mobile images stand out even more, in galleries, magazines and the like and we have viewed some outstanding images and…
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iPad Photography App Tutorial – Pixelmator Part 1: Overview by Jerry Jobe
We are delighted to publish our latest iPad Photography App Tutorial by Jerry Jobe. This week Jerry writes Part 1 (of 5) on the brand new Pixelmator iPad app (as previewed at Apple’s latest Keynote, introducing the iPad Air 2). Pixelmator is a hugely accomplished app and we are quite sure you are going to really enjoy this series of tutorials. (foreword by Joanne Carter). Pixelmator for iPad retails for $4.99/£2.99 and you can download it here “Certain companies are justly celebrated for their image manipulation software on the desktop. Adobe is one of those, with Photoshop and Lightroom. When those companies decide to expand into mobile devices, the results…
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Mobile Photography Interview – A Day in the Life of Gerry Coe – An Award Winning Highly Accomplished Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our 121st instalment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Gerry Coe, an Internationally acclaimed Fine Art Photographer, working in Northern Ireland known for both his Award winning iPhone Art Images and his Fine Art Portraiture. Coe has been awarded a Fellowship of each of the four main photographic organisations The…