Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 10 October 2021
Last year, I started to write a memoir, a book about my own unusual path in life. From the contradiction of my birth, simultaneously overlapping my near death, to living with childhood rejection, to being thrown out of pubs and clubs as a teenager for perceived drunkenness, only to discover I startlingly had a liver full of tumours, to surviving life threatening open surgery, to learning to walk again, to using the lavatory independently and then to rebuilding a cottage with blood, sweat and a lot of tears. To all of that and to go on and unexpectedly meet the man of my dreams, to becoming a wife and later a mother and there’s much more. When I give readings or do signings in the future, people will probably ask me, no doubt with a curiosity that will seem a little horrified, what my children are going to think when they read my book. Because some of it is going to sting, I’m sure, and some of it is going to present their own life story quite differently from how they have understood it. And then there’s the embarrassing sex bits – God, Mum, how could you? But after that has died down, and perhaps even after I am gone, I dare to dream that it might be incredible to hold something in their hands explaining that life is complicated, there are no true to life manuals but that they are all so deeply and desperately loved.
If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr showcase, please submit it to our dedicated group, here. Alternatively if you’re an Instagram user just tag your images with #theappwhisperer and we’ll pick you up.
Many congratulations to the following artists for being featured this week:
Gianluca Ricoveri, Marian Rubin, Janis Brandenburg Lee, Fleur Schim, mitrydate, @emjai_, @deborahmorbetoart, @nassavva, @pause.and.breathe, @sabinegromek, @sandralbmartins, @jenni_bea, @profesorela, @laurence__bouchard, Eliza Badoiu, @marshadraws, @laurencebrugerie, @fineartbycat, @hakerud73_ed, Linda Hollier, @mirea17, @edibetaylan45, @pa.hamel, Jane Schultz, @the.sky.above.the.rain, @prairiejill, @knut_roeling, @robynmencher, @mikeschmidt_, Rita Colantonio, Clint Cline, Meri Walker, Joseph Cyr, @Fille.de.Lumière, Michael Brunsfeld, Tomaso Belloni, Deborah McMillion.
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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]
