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Mostly Mobile Photography & Mobile Art – Tickle Your Fancy #55

Welcome back to our fifty third post in our Tickle Your Fancysection. Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of between three to five links to articles from around the internet that have specifically interested us during the course of the week. Ones that we feel are relevant to your interest in photography and art.

Just to explain the title for this section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ is an English idiom and essentially means that something appeals to you and perhaps stimulates your imagination in an enthusiastic way, we felt it would make a great title for this new section of the site.

Enjoy!

The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to iPhone/Smartphone Photography

Interesting resource by Eric Kim, read more here.

Image ©Eric Kim

Apple iPhone 7 camera review: better than ever

Ultimate test review by DxOMark, read more here.

Wolfgang Suschitzky, photographer and Get Carter cameraman, dies aged 104

The celebrated photographer helped establish Britain’s first film cooperative and was a noted documentarist of London life”.

Source: The Guardian – read more here

Wolfgang Suschitzky … at home in London in 2007. Photograph: Eamonn McCabe for the Guardian

Look Inside the Glamorous Homes of Famed Fashion Photographer Cecil Beaton

Photographer, painter, diarist, costume designer—interior decorator. Who else can be described as such besides Cecil Beaton? And although Beaton is most famous for his fashion and portrait photography, his life in and involved with homes was just as integral to his identity….”

Source – Vogue – read more here

The famed Circus Bedroom at Ashcombe House. Photo: James McMillan, collection of Andrew Ginger, courtesy of Rizzoli

EyeEm to make Select Images Available to Adobe Stock

EyeEm is linking up with Adobe Stock to give EyeEm users a chance to have their work licensed on Adobe’s budding stock market.

The EyeEm Collection will consist of “hand-selected” images that will be available in Adobe’s Premium Collection–the crème de la crème of the Adobe Stock market. EyeEm Collection images are already available on Getty and Alamy licensing platforms as well, making Adobe Stock the third partner marketplace…”.

Source: pdnonline – read more here

Image credit ©Dawid Garwol

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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)