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Mobile Photography and Art—‘Hope in Adversity’ Interview with Melissa D Johnston from North Carolina, United States
Today, we are publishing our twenty fourth interview in our new series, Hope in Adversity. One that’s based around art, artists and isolation during the midst of Covid-19. This one is with award winning mobile photographer and artist Melissa Johnston from North Carolina, United States. This is a memorable interview, a fascinating exposure of Johnston’s inner life. Her narrative speaks of the heartbreaks, near misses and finally the triumphs over adversity. To read others in this series of interviews with Jill Lian, Vicki Cooper, Gerry Coe, Sarah Bichachi, Sukru Mehmet Omur, Phyllis Shenny, Alisa Smith Williams, Joy Barry, Fleur Schim, Fiona Christian, Peter Wilkin, Ile Mont, Lynette Sheppard, M. Cecilia Sao…
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Melissa Johnston Joins our Mobile Photographer & Artists Portfolio Profiles
We are building the largest and most comprehensive portfolio of mobile photographers and mobile artists in the world and we are delighted to welcome Melissa Johnston‘s portfolio today. View her portfolio profile here. We also published a fascinating interview with her too, today. Please read our Hope in Adversity Interview with Melissa Johnston here. We continue to build our directory of portfolios and we need your help. If you would like to be included in this comprehensive directory, viewed by millions of organisations throughout the world, then please submit a selection of twelve images, either an artist’s statement or description of your work and social media links. Send this information via…
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New Year Resolutions 2024
I wish to extend my gratitude to each of you for forwarding your New Year Resolutions to me, and I must also express my appreciation for your patience regarding the delay in their publication. The recent months have been marked by a mixture of notable events; from the celebratory occasion of my middle son, Jovian, graduating from one of the world’s foremost universities in Digital Media, to the challenging episodes of grappling with a second bout of Covid and, tragically, the loss of my dear brother. The passing of my brother has undoubtedly been the most formidable trial to endure. I find solace only in silent tears, as I grapple…
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The Greatest Mobile Photography / Art New Year Resolutions 2023 From Artists Throughout The World
For many 2022 was a blur, we find ourselves here in 2023 almost without realising it. We are all still trying to recover from the pandemic, physically, mentally and financially, there are few among us that it hasn’t taken its toll. Yet, here we are doing what artists do, creating, rejoicing and sharing. Enjoy this long read, it is such a good opportunity to check in on everyone. Thank you to all who have contributed to making this year’s resolutions making this one the biggest ever as always, if I have missed anyone, please know it was not intentional, remind me, send me your content, and I will open the…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr and Instagram Showcase – 21 March 2021
Marcel Proust describes, In Search of Lost Time, his own experiences of ‘involuntary memories‘, these are profound and unexpected glimpses of the past triggered by mundane and everyday experiences. Escaping time, is in essence the affect of ‘involuntary memories‘, they return us to past events. Photography, is the perfect medium to use as the physical connection to illustrate and explore this. Susan Sontag pronounced that, all photographs are memento mori, to take a photograph is to participate in another persons (or things) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt. (Sontag, 1979: 15). According to Roland Barthes photographs…
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Mobile Photography / Art New Year Resolutions 2021 From Artists Throughout The World
2020 has been an unstable and blistering year and the idea of making New Year Resolutions for 2021 seems overwhelming. Susan Rennie, an Award Winning Mobile Artist from California, expressed it so well, she wants “to slough off the pandemic carapace of terror, debilitation and devitalisation and recover my pre-pandemic eagerness, energy, enjoyments, explorations in creativity”. And Award Winning artist Lisa Cirenza, who managed to relocate from the UK to France during the pandemic expressed “at one point during my battle with C-Beast, I found I really didn’t think I’d ever have the energy to accept and reflect, to lead a creative life again full of roads unknown“. For Kate…
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Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase – 11 December 2022
Mobile Photography & Art Flickr/Instagram Showcase We are giving away, 20 entries for each photographer who submits their images to the World Photography Organisation, Sony World Photography Awards Open competition. The Open competition is where all mobile photographs should be submitted. It is normally free to enter 3 images per photographer but we are giving each of you, however many thousands of you there are, 20 additional free entries. The overall winner of this category will receive $5,000 in cash, plus Sony digital imaging equipment, flights and accommodation to the awards ceremony in London (see you there), certificate, trophy, global press exposure, copy of the book, inclusion in the book, inclusion in the exhibited, promotion on WPO’s website, promoted…
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Mobile Photo Awards – 11th Annual Award Results
We are delighted to announce all of the first place Winners and the entire Honourable Mentions of the 11th Annual Mobile Photography Awards, created by Daniel Berman and supported by TheAppWhisperer among others within the Mobile Art World. This year we have all experienced so much hardship and loss that it makes this years Mobile Photography Awards even more thrilling and meaningful. We have viewed and studied each image of the awards and the results speak for themselves. It is truly breathtaking and uplifing to view this body of mobile photography work. Congratulations to you all and of course many thanks to the judges Rodrigo Rivas, Evgeny Tchebotarev, Dominika Koszowska,…
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Mobile Photography & Art Showcase – 15 August 2021
This weeks Mobile Photography and Art Flickr Group Showcase is a powerful, intricate, body of work: inflected throughout with the skill of some of the worlds best mobile photographers and artists. Drawing into its voracious embrace a panorama of impressively truthful and humane dexterity. Enjoy! If you would like your work to be considered for entry into our weekly Mobile Photography and Art Flickr Group, 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: @csallquist, @jenivoigt, @melissadjohnston, @jilllian2, @tankaqueen, @remnants_captured, @klimtt, @robertamitchell9675, @deborahmorbetoart, @lindahollier,…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase 25 April 2021
“There are so many things that art can’t do. It can’t bring the dead back to life, it can’t mend arguments between friends, or cure AIDS, or halt the pace of climate change. All the same, it does have some extraordinary functions, some odd negotiating ability between people, including people who never meet and yet who infiltrate and enrich each other’s lives. It does have a capacity to create intimacy; it does have a way of healing wounds, and better yet of making it apparent that not all wounds need healing and not all scars are ugly”. A quote from ‘The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone’…