Assignment & Critique
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Mobile Photography & Imagery – Ninth Assignment ‘Breaking Point’ #tawbreakingpoint
Yesterday we published our ‘Deadpan’ chapter for our forthcoming book ‘Away with Words’. If you missed that, please go here to view. Today, we are announcing our ninth assignment for our new chapter, this is entitled ‘Breaking Point’ and we can’t wait to see your entries. To take part please send your image(s) to my email address – [email protected] and/or to Instagram with this hashtag #tawbreakingpoint. At the end of this entry period, we will gather the images that have been contributed and select one for this immersive critique. I will personally write this essay with over 1000 words. Each critique will identify the elements, contextual meaning of these elements,…
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Assignment ‘Deadpan’ – Result and Eighth Essay with Glenn Homann for our Forthcoming Book – Away with Words
I am truly delighted to publish our eighth essay for our forthcoming book ‘Away with Words‘. Our chapter this time was entitled ‘Deadpan‘ and we received a vast array of submissions. Eventually, we settled on this image by Glenn Homann, we feel it fulfilled the brief for Deadpan, generally meaning devoid of emotion. It is a subject that exists but it seems empty. There is no happiness and there’s no sorrow. It is honest work, it is detached art. It asks more questions than it answers. Many congratulations to Glenn and I hope you all enjoy reading my essay. Please note that this section is not a ‘typical challenge’ section,…
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Mobile Photography & Imagery – Eighth Assignment ‘Belonging’ #tawbelonging
Yesterday we published our ‘Ladylike’ chapter for our forthcoming book ‘Away with Words’. If you missed that, please go here to view. Today, we’re extending the contribution date for our latest assignment ‘Belonging’, due to the busy Christmas/holiday period. To take part please send your image(s) to my email address – [email protected] and/or to Instagram with this hashtag #tawbelonging. At the end of each month, we will gather the images that have been contributed and select one for this immersive critique. I will personally write this essay with over 1000 words. Each critique will identify the elements, contextual meaning of these elements, interpretation and conclusion. Each critique will then be…
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Assignment ‘Ladylike’ – Result and Sixth Essay with Lee Atwell for our Forthcoming Book – Away with Words
With five chapters behind us, we are delighted to publish our sixth chapter for our forthcoming book ‘Away with Words’, this will be published next year. Our assignment for this chapter was ‘Ladylike’ and we have selected Lee Atwell’s image from the selection we were sent, as we feel it epitomises this subject, for our sixth of twelve 1000 word essays, personally written by myself. This non fiction work merges discursive scholarship with what may be construed as personal flights of fancy. That is not to say it will disappoint, moreover I have given myself a far and wide range to delve into photography, literature, art, theory, design and music as…
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Mobile Photography & Art – New Assignment for our Forthcoming Book ‘Away with Words’
Whilst I am busy completing the seventh chapter with our selected image for our previous assignment #ladylike, I would like to announce our brand new assignment for the next chapter in our soon to be published book entitled ‘Away with Words’. Our new assignment is ‘Belonging’. We would like to see your interpretations of this assignment. Belonging can be interpreted in many ways, who is accepted and who is not? What is self actualisation in the context of society and religion? What are the artist’s role in pushing boundaries? What is truth and who defines it? What is rejection? What is fear? What is forgiveness? What is courage? This assignment…
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Would You Like To Be Part Of Our New Forthcoming Book ‘Away with Words’?
In case you haven’t heard we’re creating a book entitled ‘Away with Words‘ to be published next year. Within this book we will have twelve chapters, each one featuring one unique image accompanied with a 1000 word essay, written by yours truly. To take part, you need to send in an image to each month’s challenge assignment. The one that we are currently hosting is entitled ‘LadyLike’ – there are many ways of thinking about that expression, what does it mean to you? How does it make you feel? What would you like to communicate within your image? When you have an image, please send it to my email address…
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Assignment – ‘Hope’ – Result and Fifth Essay with M. Cecilia São Thiago for our Forthcoming Book – Away with Words
With four chapters behind us, we are delighted to publish our fifth chapter for our forthcoming book ‘Away with Words’, this will be published early next year. Our assignment for this chapter was ‘Hope’ and we have selected M. Cecilia São Thiago’s image from the selection we were sent, as we feel it epitomises this subject, for our fifth of twelve 1000 word essays, personally written by myself. This non fiction work merges discursive scholarship with what may be construed as personal flights of fancy. That is not to say it will disappoint, moreover I have given myself a far and wide range to delve into photography, literature, art, theory, design…
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Seventh Assignment Announced ‘Ladylike’ for our Forthcoming Book ‘Away with Words’
In January 2019, we announced a brand new Assignment section to TheAppWhisperer offering an opportunity for mobile photographers and artists to enter into a monthly assignment on a subject matter that we have individually crafted. This new section is another ground breaking topic within our community. Like so many of the sections within TheAppWhisperer, has not been done before, in this way. Today, we are announcing our seventh Assignment with the topic entitled ‘Lady Like’. We would like to see images thinking about body language, with gestural meanings, symbolism – all in relation to ‘ladylike’ – the female gaze. Photographic images have reflected and shaped culture since the inception of the medium…
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Sixth New Assignment Announced ‘Recognition’ for our Forthcoming Book ‘Away with Words’
In January we announced a brand new Assignment section to TheAppWhisperer offering an opportunity for mobile photographers and artists to enter into a monthly assignment on a subject matter that we have individually crafted. This new section is another ground breaking topic within our community. Like so many of the sections within TheAppWhisperer, has not been done before, in this way. Photographic images have reflected and shaped culture since the inception of the medium and this is non more so apparent than shown within mobile photography and art. The power of mobile art today is inevitably entangled with the diverse tolerances that cultures have in relation to photographs and the…
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Assignment – ‘Beauty and Awe’ – Result and Fourth Essay with Becky Menzies for our Forthcoming Book – Away with Words
With three chapters behind us, we are delighted to publish our fourth chapter for our forthcoming book ‘Away with Words’, this will be published early next year. Our ‘assignment’ for this chapter was ‘Beauty and Awe’ and we have selected Becky Menzies image from the selection we were sent, as we feel it epitomises this subject, for our fourth of twelve 1000 word essays, personally written by myself. This non fiction work merges discursive scholarship with what may be construed as personal flights of fancy. That is not to say it will disappoint, moreover I have given myself a far and wide range to delve into photography, literature, art, theory,…