Tickle Your Fancy – #30
Welcome back to our thirtieth 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…
Fashion Magazine Shoots Entire 10th edition on the 41-megapixel Nokia Lumia 1020
Centrefold magazine is a bi-annual large format (A2) arts and fashion magazine and the latest issue has been entirely photographed with a Nokia Lumia 1020 smartphone. Centrefold launched by photographer Andrew Hobbs teamed up with Nokia and commissioned nine photographers to shoot.
The images were taken from around the world including Paris, New York, South Africa, UK and Mexico by Andrew Hobbs, Damon Baker, Peter Hill, Tung Walsh, Ulysse Frechelin, Tang Ting, Leandro Farina and Eric Guilleran – the images appear on full bleed A2 spreads.
Nokia is running a series of campaigns at the moment and has commissioned a number of famous photographers to shoot with the Lumia 1020, including David Bailey, Bruce Weber and Stephen Alvarez.
The magazine looks absolutely breathtaking and although this is not the first editorial project that we’ve seen with smartphones, I’m thinking of Martin Parr teaming up with Flo Heiss back in 2006 wit a book of images shot entirely with a Sony Ericsson camera phone. it is perhaps the most prestigious fashion title running to A2 format that we have seen. Really wonderful.
Beyond the Selfie
An interesting article in US based Popular Photography Magazine (one I also used to write for) has published an article focusing on the possibly most talked about photography expression at the moment, ‘the selfie’. This author of this article talks to several photographers and asks them for their meanings behind their selfies. So many thoughts are thrown up, perhaps ones you may not have realised, these include, politics and therapy. One photographer Zev Hoover (just 14 years old) pays huge attention to the backgrounds. Hoover has produced a series of what he calls “littlefolk” self-portraits that have earned him, among other national publicity, a segment on ABC’s Good Morning America.
Fabulous article, read more here
17th Century Fantasy Photo Shoot shot in a Swedish Castle
A Frozen Tale from Sinclair & Hill on Vimeo.
A Frozen Tale from Sinclair & Hill on Vimeo.
Seventeenth century characters inhabit a deserted Swedish castle in the photo series “A Frozen Tale” by Australian photographer Alexia Sinclair. Sinclair was inspired to create the series after the Swedish government invited her to shoot at Skokloster Castle, an unusually well-preserved 17th century Baroque castle near Stockholm. Shooting at the castle proved a challenge, as the unheated structure drops below freezing in the winter, and there is no electricity. Sinclair discusses the series in the video embedded here.
The images here are outstanding! I love them – view more here and view the video
The photographer who gave his life to tell the truth about Gaddafi’s Libya
A Liberian militia commander loyal to the government after firing a rocket-propelled grenade at rebel forces on a key strategic bridge in Monrovia, Liberia. July 20 2003. Photograph: Chris Hondros/Getty Images
Award-winning photojournalist Chris Hondros was killed by a rocket-propelled grenade while covering the Libyan conflict in 2011. As a book of his images and writing is published, Jonathan Klein, CEO of Getty Images, shares his memories.
Incredibly important article, read more here.
The week in pictures
Picture: REUTERS/Fabrizio Bensch
I love this series in The Telegraph, it’s been running for so long and I view it every single week. This week there are some really stunning images from around the world. I particularly like the one above – ‘German pensioner Volker Kraft uses a step ladder as he decorates an apple tree with Easter eggs in the garden of his summerhouse, in the eastern German town of Saalfeld. Every year since 1965, Volker and his wife Christa have spent up to two weeks decorating the tree with their collection of 10,000 colourful hand-painted Easter eggs in time for Easter celebrations’.
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)
