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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…
iPhone Photography Course – The Art of iPhoneography Self-Portraiture by Susan Tuttle
We’re delighted to publish details of this new online mobile photography course by accomplised photographer and author, Susan Tuttle. We have featured Susan’s images several times in our Flickr Group Showcases. Susan’s iPhoneography has won many awards and recognitions from venues like the prestigious American Aperture Awards (AX3) where her work took first place in the Nudes category (2013), the Mobile Photography Awards where she received several honorable mentions (2012 – 2013), and the Paris Mobile Photography Awards where her iPhoneography won first place in the Self-Portrait category (2013). Her mobile photography has been exhibited internationally in London, New York City, Prague, and Paris. This course offers an opportunity for…
Creative iPhone Photography & Mindfulness Yoga Retreat with Karen Divine and Mary McCann
I’m so pleased to publish this wonderfully sounding four day Mindfulness and Photography Workshop on behalf of Karen Divine. The event begins on the evening of Thursday May 29th and runs until the afternoon of Sunday 1st June 2014 on an island in the Casco Bay of Maine. Karen describes the retreat as ‘beginning with a practice of gentle yoga and meditation to cultivate the open and relaxed state that allows our stories to be revealed. We will engage in visual and written exercises designed to expand perspectives and unlock the creative possibilities using the little camera and processing apps on our iPhones’. To book or to find out more…
Phone Art – An Exhibition of The Art of Mobile Photography by Gerry Coe
We’re delighted to publish details of Phone Art – An Exhibition of The Art of Mobile Photography by Gerry Coe at Bangor Carnegie Library, Northern Ireland. This exhbtion runs from 4th – 30th April 2014. Gerry will be there in person to meet and chat with on Wednesday 9th April from 1 pm to 5 pm and also on Saturday 12th April from 11.30 am to 5.00 pm. It looks like a wonderful show, if you’re in the area, don’t miss this!
