FIPA TheAppWhisperer Special Award – Gates of Paradise – LIVE EVENT
It’s with huge excitement that we bring you details of FIPA/The Gates of Paradise live event from Florence, Italy. Dilshad Corelone will be reading out a speech I have written for the presentation of this award. Giancarlo Beltrame, Vivi Hanson and Jennifer A Thomas, are sending in these images as the event unfolds – stay tuned – keep refreshing this page for more up to date information…
It is with huge pleasure that I confirm the winner of the FIPA/The Gates of Paradise award is Carolyn Hall Young – please see the speech that Dilshad has just read out that I prepared:
Speech for the Gates of Paradise Award – FIPA – 18 June 2015 – to be read by Dilshad Corleone
“The theme of Gates of Paradise was selected by Joanne Carter of TheAppWhisperer to honour the gilded bronze doors of Florence’s Baptistery of San Giovanni and to provide a backdrop of inspiration for mobile artists to reflect on their lives, experiences, feelings of love and tranquillity.
The artist that we have selected for the Gates of Paradise Award graduated from one of the most exclusive Art Schools in the world and following graduation completed further study to gain a Masters of Fine Arts.
This artist has embarked on a lifetime of professional and personal achievements. Hugely successful, this artist juggled working in both film and design. Simultaneously, working with art direction, set design, props for films and television commercials. In addition to food styling, wardrobe, makeup and signage; building her own successful freelance art career and enabling her to enjoy the trappings of success.
At 34 years old this artist was diagnosed with advanced stage non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and told there was slim chance of survival beyond six months. 26 years later, this artist creates mobile digital art every single day, usually from her bed, for others. This artist has spent over 17,000 hours in the past 4 years working on digital mobile art specializing in portraiture, with the unique ability to utitlise all their skills with precise execution to create incredible art.
The winner of the FIPA Gates of Paradise Award is Carolyn Hall Young and although she can’t be with us today, she’ll be watching this presentation and enjoying every single moment. Carolyn created this image ‘Reflection of 40 Years Ago’ and there is no question, it is the most appropriate reflection of the criteria for the Gates of Paradise Award. She has captured the very essence and as Carolyn herself said ‘each moment has been a Gateway to Paradise, to the Stunning Goodness of now’.
We are proud to present Carolyn with this incredible iPhone case created by the most talented and unique silversmith of Florence, Pampaloni. In addition to this we are honoured by the generosity of Digital TinTypes.com to offer a physical 5” x 7” TinType of one her digital mobile images (of her choosing) as a wonderful keepsake
Please join us in congratulating Carolyn Hall Young on receiving the highest achievement award that we could bestow, well done Carolyn”.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter BA (Hons), ARPS 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.She holds a First Class Honours degree in Photography and is an Associate of the Royal Photographic Society (ARPS).Her journalism, criticism and editorial work have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography and NikonPro, among other international publications.Through TheAppWhisperer, she brings together academic knowledge, professional photographic expertise and more than 17 years of specialist editorial experience to examine contemporary photography, mobile imaging, computational photography, photographic applications and emerging imaging technologies.
5 Comments
Diana Nicholette Jeon
Wooooo Hoooo! Excellent speech, and SO HAPPY for Carolyn, who deserves this.
Carolyn Hall Young
Thank you, Diana. It is so sweet!
Carolyn Hall Young
Thank you Joanne. I am more grateful than I can express. I am stunned, and happy, beyond words.
Thank you for your support and encouragement, over the years. Thank you for this honor, I do no quite know how to think about it, but I am savoring it. I am moved.
Thank you for the inspiration and education I get here, from the artists and the art you showcase. Thank you for the motivation, camaraderie, and intelligence you foster right here, every day. It is such a gift. A thousand thanks.
Dada
Fantastic speech
Congrats Carolyn, really happy you won this first edition of FIPA in Florence.
❤️❤️❤️
Carolyn Hall Young
Thank you, Dada. I am at a loss, right now, to know who you are, but I appreciate your kind comment.