Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 21 March 2021
Marcel Proust describes, In Search of Lost Time, his own experiences of ‘involuntary memories‘, these are profound and unexpected glimpses of the past triggered by mundane and everyday experiences. Escaping time, is in essence the affect of ‘involuntary memories‘, they return us to past events. Photography, is the perfect medium to use as the physical connection to illustrate and explore this. Susan Sontag pronounced that, all photographs are memento mori, to take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. (Sontag, 1979: 15). According to Roland Barthes photographs exist because something was there, something ‘that-has- been’ (Barthes, 1980: 77). My challenge to you all this week (and I will formally announce this later in the week), is to make a ‘self portrait’ through objects. Please create a series of five images and include the tag #tawspobjects on Instagram. We’ll be taking a closer look at these over the coming weeks, please join in. For now, while you ponder all that, enjoy this weeks thrilling Mobile Photography and Art Showcase .
Thank you to all the talented artists for submitting your works to our showcase this week. If you would like your work to be considered for entry in to our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr Group, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. You can also submit images to our Instagram tag for this section #theappwhisperer.
Peter Wilkin, Paul Yan, Tomaso Belloni, Jill Lian, Michael Beresin, Lorenka Campos, Rita Colantonio, Catherine Caddigan, Gianluca Ricoveri, Deborah McMillion, Jun Yamaguchi, Gabriele Rodriquez, Fille.de.Lumière, Clare Pickett, Rob Pearson-Wright, Juta Jazz, p.a. hamel, Judy Wahlberg, Susan Rennie, David Scott Leibowitz, Jennifer Graham, @aniraz95, Erik Lieber, @millymmills, Linda Hollier, Dina Alfasi, Melissa D Johnston, Sandra Wood, Wayman Stairs, Carol Schiraldi, @dreamsandfields, Cynthia Morgan, Fiona Christian, Joyce Harkin, @carlosrpaz, @optics_crisis, Clarisse Debout, @mitrydate, @marshadraws, Şengül Özdemir Bekmez, Juta Jazz, Damian De Souza, @patragraphy, Carol Wiebe, Eliza Badoiu, Susan Latty, Paul Suciu, @theartofmayte, Chris Sallquist, @axelbergk, Jenny Pieters, @iphonefineartphotography, Diane Adler Monheit, Clint Cline, Marieke van Diemen, Joy Sussman, Ile Mont, Marco Prado, Adrian McGarry, Marian Rubin, Janis Brandenburg, Silke Metz Artivist, @klimtt – M Cecilia São Thiago.
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Joanne Carter, creator of the world’s most popular mobile photography and art website— TheAppWhisperer.com— TheAppWhisperer platform has been a pivotal cyberspace for mobile artists of all abilities to learn about, to explore, to celebrate and to share mobile artworks. Joanne’s compassion, inclusivity, and humility are hallmarks in all that she does, and is particularly evident in the platform she has built. In her words, “We all have the potential to remove ourselves from the centre of any circle and to expand a sphere of compassion outward; to include everyone interested in mobile art, ensuring every artist is within reach”, she has said. Promotion of mobile artists and the art form as a primary medium in today’s art world, has become her life’s focus. She has presented lectures bolstering mobile artists and their art from as far away as the Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea to closer to her home in the UK at Focus on Imaging. Her experience as a jurist for mobile art competitions includes: Portugal, Canada, US, S Korea, UK and Italy. And her travels pioneering the breadth of mobile art includes key events in: Frankfurt, Naples, Amalfi Coast, Paris, Brazil, London. Pioneering the world’s first mobile art online gallery - TheAppWhispererPrintSales.com has extended her reach even further, shipping from London, UK to clients in the US, Europe and The Far East to a global group of collectors looking for exclusive art to hang in their homes and offices. The online gallery specialises in prints for discerning collectors of unique, previously unseen signed limited edition art. Her journey towards becoming The App Whisperer, includes (but is not limited to) working for a paparazzi photo agency for several years and as a deputy editor for a photo print magazine. Her own freelance photographic journalistic work is also widely acclaimed. She has been published extensively both within the UK and the US in national and international titles. These include The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Popular Photography & Imaging, dpreview, NikonPro, Which? and more recently with the BBC as a Contributor, Columnist at Vogue Italia and Contributing Editor at LensCulture. Her professional photography has also been widely exhibited throughout Europe, including Italy, Portugal and the UK. She is currently writing several books, all related to mobile art and is always open to requests for new commissions for either writing or photography projects or a combination of both. Please contact her at: [email protected]
