Mobile Photo Now: A Major Worldwide Mobile Photography Project & Exhibition
I am very pleased to hear about this photography Project and Exhibition. Kevin Kuster who is also a good friend and a Columnist for us sent me the following information. You can read more about Kevin here, in addition.
‘Columbus Museum of Art and the #jj community (Instagram), the world’s largest community of photographers, launch the largest museum mobile photography exhibition to date.
Mobile Photo Now (February 6, 2015 – March 22, 2015) will highlight the emerging art form of mobile photography, and the power of social media and smart phones as a means of creative expression. In the fall of 2012, Columbus Museum of Art became the first museum in the world to present a curated, crowdsourced exhibition based on the photography app Instagram.
Photos for Mobile Photo Now will be co-curated by CMA and JJ from photo challenges issued throughout October 2014′.
To register for this project and exhibition, please go here
You can be part of this…
Throughout the month of October Columbus Museum of Art and #JJ we’ll be announcing one challenge each week.
- Several hundred photos will be selected to be displayed at Columbus Museum of Art as part of the Mobile Photo Now exhibition (Feb 6-March 22, 2015)
- All photos will become part of the online gallery
- Select photos will be featured on CMA and #JJ Instagram channels during the month of October.
Watch for new weekly challenges announced on CMA and #JJ Instagram channels on October 6, October 13, October 20, and October 27.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
