Mobile Photography and Art – A Picture’s Worth with Debara Splendorio from North Carolina, USA
‘A Picture’s Worth‘… is where we ask mobile photographers that have created powerful mobile photography/art to explain the processes they took. This includes their initial thoughts as to what they wanted to create, why they wanted to create it, how they created it, including all apps used and what they wanted to convey. We also ask these incredible artists to explain their emotions and how the image projects those feelings. We have published a few A Picture’s Worth articles recently, if you have missed those – please go here.
In this ‘A Picture’s Worth’ today we asked Debara Splendorio to tell us more about her image featured, ‘The Amish Girl’, featured here. Splendorio has detailed her thoughts below, we think you’ll find this invaluable…
“I live in a small rural town in North Carolina. There is a New Order Amish community that lives nearby. Their authentic simple lifestyle holds a special fascination for me and I have always wanted to photograph the women, who value being ordinary. Recently, I attended a horse auction at the fairgrounds near my home. Amish women and their daughters were selling homemade bread, jams, jellies and pies. Being very private people, and not knowing if taking photographs where someone is recognisable would be disturbing, I was discreet. My hope was to capture an image that would convey the quality of being plain and ordinary. As I was leaving, I followed this young girl and snapped off the shot as she was walking into a barn.
“The Amish Girl” is exactly what I was hoping for…a horizontal shot where she is facing away from the camera and her placement isn’t front and center. She is wearing a plain modest dress made from solid-coloured fabric with long sleeves, an apron is tied around her waist and her hair is worn in a bun and covered with a bonnet. The simplicity of the image seemed best served with a cyan textured look to reflect timelessness.
The photograph was taken on my iPhone 6S with the Camera + app. I used Snapseed to add cyan finish, grain and scratches. Distressed FX was used for texture”.
‘The Amish Girl’ ©Debara Splendorio
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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: joanne@theappwhisperer.com
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