Mobile Photography and Art Interview – Hope In Adversity Interview with Ile Mont from Mexico City
Today, we are publishing our tenth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This interview is with award winning mobile artist Ile Mont from Mexico City. There is a special sort of clear-eyed humility to this interview, quiet, unflinching and honest. Enjoy!
If you are social distancing or social isolating at this time, are you using any additional time you may have to create mobile digital art or photography?
Absolutely. I believe that, even if this world is not going to be the same after this crisis, we must continue to honor our virtues and creative disciplines always, since they provide us with a safe and known place to stick to and dwell.
If so, have you noticed the style of art that you’re creating changing from what you would normally create?
Somehow. The frame of mind is completely different.
If yes, to the above, can you explain how your art has changed?
I would like to believe that maybe my art has changed in essence and intention. Maybe it is time for art to be reconsidered and reevaluated too. Maybe it is time to make art a little serious again, to realize that art is a language of the soul for the soul, not just a pretty little thing to stick in a wall; time to reconsider the essential nature of art, and its social importance or lack of it too.
Have you found additional inspiration to create at this time?
Not really. Maybe I am very aware and conscious that what is most needed now are values like serenity, compassion, empathy, and would be willing to express something to soothe someone else’s anxiety. But maybe that is too pretentious of me. My main inspiration now is more basic, more selfish, and it is about salvation, survival, about putting myself somewhere that makes me feel safe to endure until all this is over.
Is creating mobile digital art/photography, helping you at this time especially, how and why?
It has been so hard now to find the inspiration and time, but still I cling to it, even if nothing good comes to share, I stick to it for the reasons I told you before: sanity, continuity and most important, hope.
Do you feel that sharing mobile art/photography at this time is spreading a unity of peace?
I do not think so. It seems an arrogant thought for me since there are so many priorities and more important things to attend than that. I think compasssion, empathy, patience are far more better things to share right now.
Anything else you would personally like to add?
I really think this is a crucial moment for human history, for us to right our wrongs. I still want to believe that there are far more good, conscious, generous, wise rather than bad, greedy and selfish people. It’s time to show up, to reconsider our doings and get back to a path of well being for our home, our communities, our countries and our planet
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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)
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