Tickle Your Fancy – #23 – NSFW
Welcome back to our twenty third post in our new section ‘Tickle Your Fancy’. ‘Tickle Your Fancy’ includes a round-up of 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.
We hope you enjoy this weeks’ selections…
American Apparel and Pubic Hair
Image – ©American Apparel
Well, American Apparel are not strangers to controversial advertising campaigns. Last year their mannequins ‘sported’ ‘menstruating hairy vagina t-shirts’ – ugghhh. This year they’ve gone for ‘big hairy bushes’. The mannequins were dressed in transparent underwear with ‘pubic hair’ on full display in the New York shop windows and it literally stopped people in their tracks. The irony of the whole publicity stunt, at least in my mind, whichever side of the fence you’re on, is that something like this is so controversial and yet the news that we’re bombarded with day after day of perverse and hugely damaging crimes are almost overlooked. What an ‘unnatural’ world we’re living in.
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Street Photography Masterclass – in pictures
Image – ©Antonio Olmos
The Guardian gives space to award-winning photographer Antonio Olmos allowing him to share his tips for getting started in street photography – in pictures. Interestingly or controversially (whichever way you view it) he talks about not using a point and shoot camera but does recommend the iPhone 5 and of course higher end SLRs. He covers all the bases, light, exposure, location, preparation, art and more
Read/view more here
Beautiful Games: Hoop dreams
Image – ©Robin Layton
Award winning photographer Robin Layton celebrates 123 years since basketball was invented with the most incredible images of basketball courts and makeshift rings. She captures the heart, soul and art of this incredibly important and significant US sport.
Meredith Hattam: My Life Working as a Model in China
Image – ©Meredith Hattam
A very interesting account of the treatment of both female and male models in China. We’re all used to these kind of horror stories but this is a very detailed article with references to child labor, sexual ‘favours’, slavery almost and blackmail.
Read more here
Photo Tour of Famous New Yorkers’ Living Rooms
Image ©Dominique Nabokov
This is a rather ‘virtual voyeuristic’ view of the living rooms of famous New Yorkers’ but it also the kind of world we now live in. Having said that, Dominique Nabokov ‘real life interior photographer’ started documenting these lives and images over 20 years ago. She now has a book ‘New York Living Rooms‘ displaying her fascinating captures.
Joanne Carter
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)
