TrueView Interviews Archives

Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – ‘The Decisive Moment’ with Deborah McMillion from the USA

2018-01-25 by Joanne Carter

Our TrueView Interview section is an area where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time, I have asked mobile artists to consider their work within a story telling/narrative framework. My thoughts behind this, include an 18th century thesis, ‘Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry‘, Gotthold Lessing argued that although painting could not communicate narrative in the sense of telling a story, it could imply drama by aspiring to capture the “pregnant moment”. In photography, this idea thrives as the “decisive moment” first introduced by Henri Cartier-Bresson and his followers. Therefore, my question to a mobile artist we hugely admire, Deborah McMillion from the USA [with the above in mind], is “how you build your image to express or allude to some sort of story. Do you plot, or not? How do you define it? McMillion has created an incredibly powerful and artistic video, please enjoy!

Many artists are working on their videos right now and each video is as unique and individual as each artist. We are fully conscious and respectful that you are all capturing a part of yourself and sharing it with us and we love it. Thank you.

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Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – ‘The Pregnant Moment’ with Lynette Sheppard from Hawaii, USA

2018-01-10 by Joanne Carter

One of the many things that I love, so so much about our TrueView Interview section within TheAppWhisperer.com is the feeling that I am personally having a conversation with the artist whom I have asked a question to. This is one of the many good things about social media, the ability to get closer to all of you, even though we are separated by thousands of miles, in many cases. It is completely apparent in this new TrueView Interview with Lynette Sheppard when she considers her work within a story telling/narrative framework. My thoughts behind this, include an 18th century thesis, ‘Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry‘, Gotthold Lessing argued that although painting could not communicate narrative in the sense of telling a story, it could imply drama by aspiring to capture the “pregnant moment”. In photography, this idea thrives as the “decisive moment” first introduced by Henri Cartier-Bresson and his followers. Therefore, my question to a mobile artist we hugely admire, Lynette Sheppard [with the above in mind], is “how you build your image to express or allude to some sort of story. Do you plot, or not? How do you define it? And the result is tremendous.

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I have included the images below that are referenced in this video below.

Images ©Lynette Sheppard

Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – ‘The Pregnant Moment’ with Catherine Schell Caddigan from the United Sates

2017-12-112017-12-11 by Joanne Carter

Our TrueView Interview section is an area where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time, I have asked mobile artists to consider their work within a story telling/narrative framework. My thoughts behind this, include an 18th century thesis, ‘Laocoon: An Essay on the Limits of Painting and Poetry‘, Gotthold Lessing argued that although painting could not communicate narrative in the sense of telling a story, it could imply drama by aspiring to capture the “pregnant moment”. In photography, this idea thrives as the “decisive moment” first introduced by Henri Cartier-Bresson and his followers. Therefore, my question to Catherine Caddigan from the United States [with the above in mind], is “how you build your image to express or allude to some sort of story. Do you plot, or not? How do you define it?

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Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – “How TheAppWhisperer Helps Me with Mobile Photography and Art” by Marguerite Khoury

2017-10-302017-10-30 by Marguerite Khoury

Our TrueView Interview section is an area where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time, we asked highly accomplished Mobile Photographer and Artist, Marguerite Khoury from Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, “How Does TheAppWhisperer Help You with Mobile Photography and Art?”.

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Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – ‘Why I Create Self Portraiture with a Smartphone’ with Eliza Badoiu from Romania

2017-10-022017-10-02 by Joanne Carter

Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – ‘Why I Create Self Portraiture with a Smartphone’ with Violet Martins from Brazil

2017-09-292017-09-29 by Joanne Carter

Our TrueView Interview section is an area where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time, we asked accomplished Mobile Photographer and Artist, Violet Martins from Brazil to consider and answer ‘why I create self portraiture with my smartphone’. Martins created the video below and replied in text to this thought, “The reason I take self portraitures, is because I can! I don’t have to ask and I can edit as I imagine as I go on“. I would say that knowing Martins, as I do there’s more to this than meets the eye. If we are to consider that for many, the female impulse to struggle free from social and belletristic confinement, through strategic reformulation of the individual, art and society, then through this paradigm of self portraiture we can observe how it distinctively complements female anxieties, we’ll be a little closer…

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Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – ‘Why I Create Self Portraiture with a Smartphone’ with Armineh Hovanesian from Glendale, California, United States

2017-09-25 by Joanne Carter

Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – ‘Why I create Self Portraiture’ with Cecilia São Thiago from Brazil

2017-09-212017-09-21 by M. Cecilia São Thiago

Our TrueView Interview section is an area where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time, we asked highly accomplished Mobile Photographer and Artist, Cecilia São Thiago from Brazil to consider and answer ‘why I create self portraiture with my smartphone’. It is an interesting question to ponder, there are over 1.8 billion photos shared around the internet each day, many of these are selfies. The difference, we feel in our questioning is that we are asking artists. Therefore, do artists take self portraits because it gives them the opportunity to view themselves from the outside? That a considerable amount of other thoughts will, we hope, be uncovered in our new series of TrueView Interviews, enjoy!

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Mobile Photography – TrueView Interview – ‘Why I create Self Portraiture’ with Jeffrey Simpson from Fryeburg, Maine, United States

2017-09-192017-09-19 by Joanne Carter

Our TrueView Interview section is an area where we ask one singular question, to mobile photographers and artists and it is captured to video. This time, we asked highly accomplished Mobile Photographer and Artist, Jeffrey Simpson from Fryeburg, Maine, US to consider and answer ‘why I create self portraiture with my smartphone’. It is an interesting question to ponder, there are over 1.8 billion photos shared around the internet each day, many of these are selfies. The difference, we feel in our questioning is that we are asking artists. Therefore, do artists take self portraits because it gives them the opportunity to view themselves from the outside? That a considerable amount of other thoughts will, we hope, be uncovered in our new series of TrueView Interviews, enjoy!

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Mobile Photography / Art ‘Why I Don’t Create Self Portraiture with my Smartphone’ by Philippe Schlossberg from France

2017-09-15 by Joanne Carter

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