New Projects
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Mehmet Ömür’s Photography, iPhoneography and the Creative Beyond Workshop 2024
Mehmet Ömür’s Photography, iPhoneography and the Creative Beyond May 20 – 30, 2024 We are delighted to announce artist/photographer Mehmet Ömür’s 2024 workshop that will build on your current photography and iPhone skills and then stretch your creative muscles with some new ones. Mehmet was born in Istanbul and discovered his love of photography in the early 70’s, using a Kodak Instamatic 100 camera. Despite his demanding career as an ENT surgeon, photography remained a passion, albeit one he could not fully pursue at the time. However, with the advent of the digital era and his full-time photographer period in Paris, France since 2017, he returned to the photography scene.…
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Digital Masterpieces Photo Contest 2023 Duration – 4 October 2023 – 4 December 2023
Digital Masterpieces Photo Contest 2023 Duration – 4 October 2023 – 4 December 2023 It is with great pleasure and excitement that we unveil a prestigious and innovative event today: the inauguration of the Digital Masterpieces Photo Contest, hosted by TheAppWhisperer. This contest marks a significant milestone in the world of digital photography, and we are honoured to have you all join us in this celebration of creativity and technological artistry. Digital Masterpieces, hailing from the vibrant photography landscape of Germany, have emerged as pioneers and trailblazers in the realm of iOS photo art development. Their suite of applications is emblematic of precision, professionalism, and aesthetic excellence. These apps, which…
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Chris Killip, retrospective Fri 07 Oct 2022 – Sun 19 Feb 2023
If you find yourself in London tonight, do attend this fabulous retrospective. Chris Killip’s continued efforts to value and document the lives of those affected by the economic shifts in the North of England, throughout the 1970s and 80s, have made him one of the most influential figures of British Photography. This retrospective exhibition of more than 140 works, serves as the most comprehensive survey of the photographer’s work to date and includes previously unseen ephemera and colour works. ‘His work possesses a poetic undertow that was linked to his ability to evoke conflicting moods in a single image’. Sean O’Hagan – The Guardian His sustained immersion into the communities he photographed remains without…
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Book Launch – A Joyous Representation of Mobile Art Visualised Through the Quilt Project
I am delighted today to announce the publication of the Mobile Art Quilt Project Book. Now, arguably considered to be one of the 21st century’s most important poetic pieces and a defining staple of mobile art. It is a piece of literature and art that was inspired by the creation of the physical Mobile Art Quilt which showcases 234 pieces of art created by individual mobile artists throughout the world. Each artwork stands on its own, with its own structure, meaning and symbolism. Inside the book there are written texts by architect of the Quilt Project, Roger Guetta as well as collaborators, Lorenka Campos, Linda Toki and Kate Zari Roberts.…
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You Brought Your Own Light, a New Book of Transgender Portraits
A book of transgender portraiture showcasing the work of award-winning photographer Allie Crewe has been published by Axis Projects Publishing this July 2020. You Brought Your Own Light is produced by Alan J Ward and brings together 26 of Allie’s revealing Transgender portraits, including the image of Grace, a doctor, which won the BJP Portrait of Britain 2019. A series of 12 of the portraits were initially exhibited in Manchester at an event sponsored by the National Transgender Charity, Sparkle. You Brought Your Own Light now brings these portraits together in a book, continuing Allie’s journey as a political artist exploring social issues of the day using photography to give a voice to those often…
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Karyn Mannix Contemporary PRESENTS #inthesky – shelter-in-place” – New Works by James Bacchi
New Works by James Bacchi #inthesky San Francisco shelter-in-place #inthesky is a black and white Mobile Photography Essay inaugurated in 2015. An obsession to capture and illustrate ‘tension’ from the ground up continues to be my intent. On March 17, 2020 a “shelter-in-place” Order went into effect throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. Suddenly, everything changed. In admirable battle against this raging pandemic, San Francisco has visually taken on a “stay home” persona. With each passing week, and quiet as it may seem, the overall sensibility of this brave city continues to intensify. Skies have been ranging from milky greys to cerulean blues, sometimes clear though more often filled with…
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New Mobile Photography Book Coming Soon – ‘iPhone Photography for Everybody: App Techniques’ by Paul J Toussaint
I am delighted to announce that highly talented mobile photographer Paul Toussaint‘s brand new book, ‘iPhone Photography for Everybody: App Techniques’ will be released for sale on 15 July 2020. I personally know that Toussaint has been working hard on this book for sometime and I can’t wait to get my hands on a copy, as soon as I do, I will publish a review. Here’s a little more about it: “The iPhone contains a powerful camera that is always within reach and allows photographers of all ages and skill levels to capture high-quality images anytime, anywhere, with minimal effort. In this book, renowned mobile photographer Paul J. Toussaint teaches…
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Gallery of Colour with Mobile Photographer Derrick Ofosu Boateng @derrick_o_boateng
“Each carefully constructed, colour saturated image is its own Boateng masterpiece, but together they become something even greater: iconic.” TheAppWhisperer Derrick Ofosu Boateng is a contemporary Art photographer who was born in Ghana and resides in Accra. Boateng attended Kumasi high school and is currently a student at the university of Ghana business school. He is a fan of football and watching movies. “I came into photography around November 2017 with the perception I had that the world didn’t see the happy times and didn’t know the extraordinary lifestyles and behaviours we Africans had. When growing up I noticed through movies, stories and musics that, the mindset people had about…
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Virtue Not Vice – Raw Beauty – #causewefeed with @aqua_libra
Visually and artistically literate, @aqua_libra leads the viewer on a journey portraying raw beauty, energy with unconditional love in this series of photographs representing breast feeding in public – #causewefeed. “Gerard David “Mary and Child”1490, Leonardo da Vinci “Virgin and Child 1452-1549, Frederico Barocci “Madonna and Child. Just a few of the great painters in history who created beautiful pieces of a mother and her child breastfeeding. Taking care of her infant who is in need of milk and the comfort of its mothers love and simply because the baby is hungry. We can find these paintings all over the world in the most beautiful grand museums. And we…
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Tracey Emin – A Fortnight of Tears – Exclusive Video and Insight
I happily spent this morning/early afternoon with Tracey Emin at a press invitation to her brand new exhibition entitled ‘A Fortnight of Tears‘ at the White Cube, Bermondsey, London, SE1. This is a major exhibition installed throughout the gallery’s spaces, exhibits include sculpture, neon, painting, film, photography and drawing, all focusing on Emin’s own memories and emotions, arising from loss, pathos, anger and love. This exhibition is one to feast upon, throughout the exhibition Emin articulates the joy and suffering that is intrinsic to our human existence. Often with fraught memories of sexual relations, the very physical and emotional trauma she endured with her abortion of twins (past three months…
