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Mobile Masters 2 eBook Now Available and Temporarily Free
As we mentioned a few days ago (see here) the Mobile Masters Second Edition – Proof – is now available to download and will be temporarily free for two days, instead of the more usual $4.99/£2.99. In addition the Interactive Print Show opens today as well. Explore over 50 immersive interactive portfolios with over 300 images from some of the best Mobile Photographers from around the world. Hear about their creative vision and how they created each image in their PROOF Portfolio. Each artist shares links to their favorite artist and mobile photo resources. In addition see video updates on some of last years Mobile Masters and uncover many resources…
Mobile Masters Second Edition, The PROOF Show will be available May 3rd, 2014
The Mobile Masters Second Edition has already been approved by Apple and will be available in iTunes on Saturday May 3, 2014. It will be free for the first two days, and then revert to its retail price of $4.99/£2.99. We have a teaser video for you to check out in the meantime – here’s the link for that. The Mobile Masters Second Edition will allow you to explore over 50 immersive interactive portfolios with over 300 images from some of the best Mobile Photographers from around the world. Hear them speak about their creative vision and how they created each image in their PROOF Portfolio. Each artist also shares…
The Eye International Photography Festival Returns For A Second Year
Following on from the hugely successful inaugural event in 2012 details have been announced for the second EYE International Photography Festival which will run from 27 – 29 June 2014. The 2014 festival sees another high quality line-up of guest artists, including one of the world’s leading documentary photographers, Ian Berry, who was invited to join Magnum by Henri Cartier Bresson. He is joined by landscape photographer Charlie Waite, Royal photographer Arthur Edwards MBE, award winning Justin Mazon (USA), Angele Etoundi Essamba (Cameroon/France), award winning Timothy Allen, Sophie Batterbury (picture editor of The Independent), Eamonn McCabe (former Picture Editor for The Guardian), Colin Jacobson (photojournalism lecturer), documentary photographers Kajal Nisha…
Photography Exhibitions In London Over The Easter Period And A Little Beyond…
We’re now on British Summer Time – so much more light – at last! So, if you’re in London or perhaps considering a visit, here’s a round up of some great Photography Exhibitions to see right now! ATLAS Gallery: Collected Works: 20 years in Photography ©David Drebin, Big City Spy, 2013 Open now – 26 April 2014 Collected Works showcases the key photographers and landmark acquisitions from the gallery’s two decades dealing in important vintage and contemporary photography, from early vintage prints by Robert Capa and William Klein, to contemporary works by Paolo Ventura and Nick Brandt. Gallery open Monday – Friday 10am – 6pm, Sat 11am – 5pm Link…
Getty Images Offering $130,000 Grants to Editorial & Portrait Photographers
We have mentioned this previously, see here, but just as a reminder, photographers have until 15 May to submit their work for a chance to win one of this year’s Getty Images Grants. This year, as it celebrates the programme’s 10-year anniversary, Getty Images will be offering six Editorial photography prizes, three Creative Grants for non-profit organisations and photographers, and one Portrait award – totalling $130,000 in cash prizes. In the Grants for Editorial Photography category, Getty Images will present five $10,000 prizes, which will be awarded to photojournalists pursuing personal projects of journalistic significance. An additional grant, offered in partnership with the Lean In foundation, will be “awarded to…
Creative Grants & Residencies – ‘DIY Residencies’
As you know one of our new and key areas here within theappwhisperer.com is to bring you news of creative grants and residencies that we feel with help you progress with your wonderful art. The Guardian reports on DIY residencies – ‘a career in the arts on your own terms’. This article talks about 24 hour plays to co-op leasing and explains that US artists are ditching traditional residencies in favour of working on their own terms. It’s a very interesting read for all, please go here to read more.
Competition – CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year
Free to enter, the CBRE Urban Photographer of the Year competition challenges you to change our perceptions of day to day life in the urban environment through their brief: ‘Cities at Work’. The winner will receive a luxury photo-safari trip from a choice of destinations around the globe. The Urban Photographer of the Year will be the person who, in the eyes of the judges, has best captured the brief to portray the life of a town or city at a given time of day. Whilst the photograph does not necessarily have to be taken at that specific time of day, it does need to look as though it was.…
Ten commission opportunities offered by FotoDocument with Photoworks
As you will be aware we are expanding at a rate of knots here at theappwhisperer.com to ensure that our readers are fully aware of as many opportunities as possible relating to their photography and art. One of our new areas will bring you details of creative grants and residencies available throughout the world for artists. We previously mentioned Getty Images’ Creative Grants with an Additional Award of $20K for works that focus on enpowering women and girls, if you missed that please go here. Today, we’d like to bring to your attention another wonderful photo opportunity. Photoworks are partnering FotoDocument and BioRegional to commission ten public space photo essays…
Truth and Memory – British Art of the First World War
This looks like a fabulous exhibition that we have just received details of directly from The Imperial War Museum London (IWP). IWM London presents the largest exhibition of British First World War art for almost 100 years. This major retrospective comprises over 120 artworks and will feature the most iconic images to emerge from the First World War, including paintings by Paul Nash, Percy Wyndham Lewis, CWR Nevinson, Stanley Spencer and William Orpen, as well as lesser known, yet significant works, by artists such as Anna Airy, George Clausen and Gilbert Rogers. This exhibition will run from 19 July 2014 – 8 March 2015 with free admission. Please note, IWM…
Letter to Jane – Fabulous Photography iPad Magazine
One area we have been thinking about adding to theappwhisperer.com for some time is reviewing and highlighting iPad Photography magazines. I don’t mean photo app review style magazines, I’m talking more about sophisticated state of the art digital photography magazines. There are many photography and art iPad magazines available but few that meet the criteria that we’re striving to cover here. Letter to Jane is the first one that we would like to acknowledge in this new series, as one reviewer put it ‘Letter to Jane is by turns surprising, delightful, sensual, engaging, and very smart. It creates a whole new magazine format, one totally unrelated to anything having to…
