Tickle Your Fancy – #34 – Poignant Moments From Around The World – Seen Via Instagram
Welcome back to our thirty fourth 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, we have have…
TIME’s Lightbox Follow Friday Photographer Series
TIME Lightbox have a wonderful new series where they feature the work of photographers using Instagram in new and engaging ways. Each week they introduce a photographer befind their feed through his or her images and follow it up with an interview. The latest photographer to be picked up is Matt Black (@mattblack_blackmatt), who charts the physical terrain of economic inequality in his Geography of Poverty project. He says Instagram has allowed him to explore the connection between cartography and photography as he builds a map of modern poverty in pictures. Really fascinating, read and view more here.
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