New iPhoneography Course with Meri Walker – June 29 – July 3, 2015
There are just a few places left to attend this week long course brought to you by Meri Walker at the Idyllwild Arts Centre, California. This is a one-week master class in the skilled thinking and technical processing required to make serious photographs and mobile art with an iPhone and iPad. Meri Aaron Walker, aka iPhoneArtGirl, will take participants through the ins and outs of camera replacement apps, app-stacking processes that won’t degrade image quality, and the deliberate use of social media to build fruitful professional and learning relationships instead of wasting time online.
Participants will be invited to join and use a private group blog set up expressly for this class and encouraged to continue using it after the class to share inspiration, answer questions, and build a learning community in the weeks and months ahead. The workshop will be 100% hands-on, keeping you on your toes, pushing you to use the techniques you will be learning. You’ll be inspired with a wide-range of ideas for making powerful smartphone images and practice using apps you can stack to make intricately crafted images that you’re proud to display, publish and/or sell.
Skill Level: The course assumes that participants will arrive with basic familiarity with photographic terms and processes and the ability to access their iTunes account and download photographic/art-making apps. We will not spend time explaining how iTunes works or the most fundamental photographic principles. Our attention will be on mobile photography and mobile art-making.
Materials: A complete materials list will be sent upon registration.
Tuition: $725
Lab Fee: $25 (Includes 5-7 sheets Epson printing paper, printer inks.)
Enrolment limited to 15 students.
Meri Walker: After four decades shooting, printing, and exhibiting photographs using traditional tools, five years ago, Meri put down her big cameras, closed up Photoshop on her computer, and dove down the rabbit hole into her iPhone and iPad. In 2013, Meri was named Artist of the Day at iPhoneArt.com. The most prestigious mobile site, The App Whisperer.com, honoured her with an extensive interview last summer celebrating her achievements and she is a regular contributor to P1xels, the oldest online gallery of mobile artists. Other profiles have appeared on major mobile art sites and a recent PBS special on the history of photography in Oregon concludes with a section that features Meri’s work.
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)
One Comment
Meri Walker
Thank you so very much for sharing the information about this Master Class, Joanne. It’s my great honor and pleasure to share all I’ve been learning over the last five years about mobile photography and mobile art-making. It’s such an exciting new medium – the smartphone – and I find I’m really helpful to trained photographers who haven’t “gotten bitten” by the power of their iPhone and iPad cameras and apps. I was pretty scared to take the work seriously when I began – having spent a long time as an assignment and fine-art photographer. At this point, however, I’m fully seduced by my telephone, for heaven’s sake.
It’s impossible to thank you – and the whole mobile community – for all I have learned and continue to learn here on The App Whisperer. Blessings on you…