Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (95) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day ninty five of our new Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @gricoveri – Gianluca Ricoveri with this beautiful image. Please also check out his Instagram feed, there are many gorgeous images.
My Latest Vogue Column Article Published with Photographer Heather Evans-Smith
I am so pleased to see my latest article for my column at Vogue has just been published. This time I interviewed the stunningly talented photographer Heather Evans-Smith. “Inspired by the deep emotional qualities of photographers Francesca Woodman and Sally Mann; their influence seeps into the soul of her images. Unlike Woodmann, who preferred to work in old buildings, where the cracked plaster and grimy floorboards lent the pictures a creepy Gothic sensibility; Evans-Smith unearths her beautiful home as studio and setting for her fantastical shoots. In presenting her ingenuity to us, her photographs remind us of our own capacity to dream and in some cases, recall”. Read more here.
Current Photography Competitions and Grants – May 2015
There are a huge number of photography competitions and grants currently vying for your images. We have listed the details and deadlines below, with links, to help make it easier for you to enter and find them all. Hope this helps! If you know of anymore competitions, please let me know and I will add them to this list.
APPart – Mobile Art – Pantone Color of the Day – ‘Garden Green’ – TheAppWhisperer
Many of you have already seen our new segment to our APPart column here at TheAppWhisperer, edited by Bobbi McMurry. We would like to inspire all mobile artists to create one image a day using the selected colour of Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ – see here (we will announce the colour each day). As well a ‘Color of the Day’, Pantone also link that colour with adjectives and/or nouns. For your information Pantone’s ‘Color of the Day’ was originally created by renowned astrologer Michele Bernhardt – you can read more about her here. Today’s ‘Color of the Day ‘Garden Green’ (19–230) and the accompanying descriptives are ‘Strong, Deep,…
Mobile Photography/Art – Pic of the Day (94) – via Instagram – TheAppWhisperer
Here’s day ninty four of our new Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. Furthermore, each month we will also offer an overall prize to the image that receives the most love. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @lorenka – Lorenka Campos with this wonderful image, ‘The queen of hearts is always your best bet……………..‘ Please also check out her Instagram feed, there are many inspiring images.
hEAdoN Photo Festival with Ben Lowy
Head On turns the city of Sydney into a living cross-section of cutting edge photography and video media. Exhibiting across all genres and experiences, Head On is a platform for the passion of the photographers, the excitement of the audiences, the beauty of the medium and the issues photography addresses. Head On is a bridge between Australian and International photographic markets. In 2014 alone, Head On exhibited 55 artists from 18 countries. Festival tours in America, China and New Zealand introduced the international photographic elite and audiences in excess of 500, 000 to the wealth of photographic talent Australia possess with great acclaim. There’s a fabulous masterclass workshop entitled ‘creating…
Getty Images Instagram Grant – Up To $30,000 To Be Awarded
Getty Images have announced a collaboration with Instagram to offer a grant to support photographers using Instagram to document stories from underrepresented communities around the world. A total of three grants of $10,000 each will be awarded. Winners will not only receive a cash grant, they will also have the opportunity for mentorship with award-winning Getty Images photographers. Application deadline – June 4, 2015, 11.59 pm (GMT) To find out more and to enter, go here.
Pink Lady Food Photographer of the Year 2015
I was invited once again to this prestigious award ceremony last night in Central London, it’s always a very esteemed event in the Mall Galleries. The categories, devised to show the culture and production of food in all its variety, now include Food for the Family, seeking everyday scenes of families across the world eating together, and Bring Home the Harvest for images of gathering in food, from cropping lettuces, cutting guava, to shopping in the local supermarket, as well as unearthed® Food in Film for film shorts. Anglo-French culinary legend Michel Roux Jr., Emily Luchetti, Chair of the James Beard Foundation, USA, and George Motz, Founder and Director, Food…
15 Photo Companies Just Came Together For A Very Worthwhile Cause: You Can Help Too!
How often do you get to give something, get something AND feel good about it all around? And, how often do you see some of your favorite photo companies come together to help make it happen? Now’s your chance to do just that — to get on board with something BIG. It’s called #TogsGiveBack. And, it’s a pretty special campaign to bring all together the following supports and to aid the artists of our collective future. #TogsGiveBack is simple: You choose a bundle packed with great photo perks and giveaways from 15 photo companies, and your donation goes directly to Urban Arts Partnership, a not-for-profit that provides vital arts education programs in inner city schools. It’s a…
Street Photographer & Educator Interview with Eric Kim – TheAppWhisperer
You’ll love this video interview by Narrative (a wearable camera start up) with Eric Kim. Kim disucssses his street photography, his blog and perhaps a little more information than we needed 😉 but all good humoured. Take a look at the video attached.
