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Mobile Photo Essay – Gina Costa Wins First Prize Award
I am very proud of our co-editor Gina Costa (along with Meri Walker) for taking the first prize of the Latin American Mobile Photography Exhibition Award for her photo essay on the theme of memory, decay and beauty. The Latin American Mobile Photo Festival and Awards Exhibits are on display now until 24 July 2016. To find out more about this incredible event, please go here. Please note that we are accepting your mobile photo essays for features on TheAppWhisperer.com. Please go here to visit our FB forum and here, to visit our website Column for this section.
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Mobile Photography Interview with Gina Costa – Street Photographer
As many of you will know, among the assortment of hats that I wear, writing for the BBC and Vogue, I am also Contributing Editor to LensCulture. I have a brand new interview in the works, which will be published soon and in the meantime, with kind permission of LensCulture, I will be republishing my work to our beloved TheAppWhisperer website – the most popular mobile photography and art site in the world. Today, I am publishing ‘The Quiet Moment, The Golden Hour: Mobile Street Photography’ with Gina Costa . I hope you enjoy this, Gina’s work is alluring. To read the original article on LensCulture, please go here. “Mobile…
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My Latest LensCulture Article Published with Gina Costa
Wonderful! I am delighted to announce that my latest article as Contributing Editor for LensCulture has just been published. This time I interviewed Gina Costa about her incredible mobile Street Photography. “Mobile photography allows me to instinctively and quietly shoot the subject matter I am drawn to most—the streets. —Gina Costa, in conversation with LensCulture Contributing Editor, Joanne Carter The street photographer wanders through the city with an inherent “readiness to respond to errant details, chance juxtapositions, odd non sequiturs, peculiarities of scale, the quirkiness of life in the street” (Westerbeck and Meyerowitz, 1994)…” To read more, please follow this link.
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Mobile Photo Essay – Día de los Muertos by Gina Costa
We are delighted to publish this totally fabulous mobile photo essay by Gina Costa. As this is a very spooky weekend, Gina has written topically about Día de los Muertos – the Day of the Dead! Don’t miss this (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I want to introduce readers to an important celebration which parallels the Western World’s Halloween tradition and is becoming ever more popular in parts of the globe: the “Day of the Dead” (Spanish: Día de los Muertos).
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Mobile Photographer Interview – A Day In The Life Of Gina Costa – An Outstanding, Talented and Compassionate Mobile Photographer
Welcome to our very exciting interview column on theappwhisperer.com. This section entitled “A Day in the Life of…” is where we take a look at some hugely influential, interesting and accomplished individuals in the mobile photography and art world… people that we think you will love to learn more about. This is our ninety eighth installment of the series. If you have missed our previous interviews, please go here. Today we are featuring Gina Costa; Gina began making photographs as a teenager capturing the visual beauty and dramatic landscape of the Italian village where her father was born and lived. It’s also where Gina grew up and where her heart…
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Mobile Photography – “Streets Ahead” Interview with Gina Costa
This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (Streets Ahead) is extremely pleased and honored to feature Gina Costa in our interview section. As you will quickly glean from this article, Gina is very knowledgeable in the fine arts… especially photography. Not only is she a Museum curator, but she also teaches Art History at various colleges and universities. So, before I start to bore you with an introduction rant, how about I just let Gina’s words speak for herself? For those of you who are being introduced to Gina Costa for the first time, be prepared… ‘cuz you’re in for a real treatt And for those of you who…
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17TH MIRA MOBILE PRIZE OPEN FOR ENTRIES
The deadline has been extended to 23 March to submit your photographs to this wonderful photography competition. 17TH MIRA MOBILE PRIZE OPEN FOR ENTRIES I am so proud to be a member of this esteemed mobile photography and art annual competition alongside, Mario Pires, Andrea Bigiarini, Gina Costa, Giulia Baita. Many thanks to Manuela Matos Monteiro for inviting me, I am honoured. There are seven categories to enter in this years competition and each artist may submit a total of three mobile images, per category. These include: Landscape, Portrait, Daily Life, Architecture, Minimal, Artificial Intelligence and Digital Art. This edition of MMP is dedicated to Marian Seid Rubin, a pioneer…
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MIRA Mobile Art Prize 2022 – Results
We are delighted to announce the Winner’s and the entire Shortlist of the 13th edition of the 2022 Annual MIRA Mobile Art Prize, created by Manuela Matos Monteiro and supported by TheAppWhisperer among others within the Mobile Art World. The award celebrates contemporary art within six specific categories, these include, Landscape, Portrait, Daily Life, Architecture, Minimal and Digital Art. The past few years we have all experienced so much hardship and loss that it makes this years MIRA Mobile Art Prize even more thrilling and meaningful. It was truly an honour and privilege to be member of the jury of this esteemed mobile photography and art competition, celebrating the world’s best mobile artists…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr Group Showcase – 6 February 2022
You may have heard of Dr Megan Poe, she is a 46 year old psychiatrist and associate professor who teaches an undergraduate course on love, which she designed at New York University. It has achieved overwhelming success. The course is called ‘Love Actually’ and attempts to pack as much about the human experience of love in, as is possible. The course leans heavily on the work of Eric Fromm, the psychologist best known for his 1956 book, The Art of Loving. What I love about the syllabus of this class, is at its core, albeit a psychology class, its emphasis is on love, through art. As described in The Guardian…
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Through A New Lens: Works from the World-Wide Mobile Photography Movement Exhibition
I am so proud to announce the Perspective Gallery is to present “Through A New Lens”, an exhibition by seven internationally-recognized iPhoneographers. The exhibit, curated by my dear friend and museum professional, art historian and photographer, Gina Costa, demonstrates a broad range of styles and approaches used by mobile technology. Works range from traditional, “straight” photographs, to abstract and highly “apped” works of art. Visitors to the exhibition will observe the incredible span of possibilities mobile technology permits. The evolution of mobile photography can be understood as the logical next step of developments in the history of photography. Technically, what preceded the mobile photography movement led naturally to its adoption,…
