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StreetWise – Street Photography First Challenge – ‘Working on the Street’
We are proud to announce our first Challenge to our street photography mobile photography group – StreetWise. (StreetWise is our mixed gender group, as opposed to StreetsAhead, which is our Women’s only collective). Our Challenge details are below and the selected images will be portrayed in a showcase later in the month. CHALLENGE 1: Working on the Street Deadline 22nd December 2015 Working on the Street – we would like to see your captures of people working on the street (don’t put yourselves at risk though). The rules and procedure for entry: 1. Maximum of three entries per person – please do not upload any other images to this…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – Second Flickr Group Showcase
Welcome to the Second Edition of our “StreetWise” Flickr Group Showcase. StreetWise is a column dedicated to mobile street photography and photographers throughout the world. Vivi Sacerdote Hanson and Sheldon Serkin are the editors of this column and will regularly review and curate work that was submitted to our StreetWise Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy…
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Mobile Photography – StreetWise – First Flickr Group Showcase!
Welcome to our First Edition of our “StreetWise” Flickr Group Showcase. StreetWise is a column dedicated to mobile street photography and photographers throughout the world. Vivi Sacerdote Hanson and Sheldon Serkin are the editors of this column and will regularly review and curate work that was submitted to our StreetWise Flickr Group. In addition to creating a showcase video which features a sampling of submitted work, we also highlight a few images that caught our attention… offering some thoughtful commentary about technique, composition, and subject matter. If you are not a member of our Facebook group… we highly recommend that you join us! This is our space for sharing newsworthy…
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Vivi Hanson Sacerdote Joins TheAppWhisperer as co-editor of StreetWise
We are delighted to welcome Vivi Hanson Sacerdote as a new co-editor to TheAppWhisperer StreetWise Column. We have long been admirers of her photography and she has contributed in so many ways over the past few years. Not least with her supporting role at The Photography Show in Birmingham earlier this year. Vivi is a committed and loyal believer in TheAppWhisperer and it’s with huge pleasure that we announce her new position with us today. Vivi will work alongside our Sheldon Serkin, they will both co-edit StreetWise. Serkin also has a rich history of mobile street photography and has been photographing New York City since 2010 in this way. StreetWise…
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TrueView Interview – “What does your Work say about Mobile Photography and/or Mobile Art?” with Robi Gallardo from Hong Kong, China
Today, we are publishing a brand new TrueView Interview video, this time with uber talented mobile photographer (and brother to our fabulous co-editor of our StreetsAhead column – Cara Gallardo Weil) Robi Gallardo from Hong Kong, China. We asked him, “What does your Work say about Mobile Photography and/or Mobile Art?”. Please watch the video and enjoy his answer. This is a new section to TheAppWhisperer, we are so proud of all the wonderful artists who are contributing to our new section, ‘TrueView Interviews‘ where we ask one singular question to video. This is such an exciting area, so many of you are working on your videos right now, we…
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Exclusive and Intimate Interview with Thomas Hurst – Photojournalist and Creator of COVR Photo Lens
Thomas Hurst is an admirable man and one that I am very pleased to know and call a friend. Originally, he was introduced to me by one of our Columnists and also good friend, Kevin Kuster – former Senior Photo Editor for Playboy Magazine. Hurst created the COVR lens case and launched a hugely successful campaign via Kickstarter last year for the iPhone 5 raising over $85,000, today he has launched a new campaign for the iPhone 6, you can read more about that here. I have been intrigued by Hurst for sometime, and wanted to learn more. Within this conversation, mostly in his own words, Hurst takes us through…
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Mobile Street Photography – StreetWise – Challenge 1 – with Fabulous Prizes!
Welcome to our first challenge to our brand new mobile street photography group, StreetWise. Unlike our women only mobile photography StreetsAhead group, StreetWise is an open group for all mobile street photographers, whatever their gender. StreetWise is edited by Sheldon Serkin, Serkin has been a mobile street photographer in New York City since 2010. In 2014, he was named the Grand Prize winner and “Mobile Photographer of the Year” in the Mobile Photo Awards, placing first in the category of Street Photography, read more about Serkin (here). For this Challenge we are delighted to be working closer with Thomas Hurst, Founder of COVR Photo. Hurst has created an incredible iPhone…
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Sheldon Serkin Joins TheAppWhisperer as a New Columnist for StreetWise
We are delighted to welcome Sheldon Serkin as a new Columnist to TheAppWhisperer. We have long been admirers of Serkin’s photography and he is regualrly featured in our weekly Flickr Group Showcases. Sheldon is heading up our brand new mobile street photography column entitled StreetWise. As our regular readers will know, we have a very popular women’s mobile street photography group entitled, StreetsAhead. This is uber popular and is edited by Cara Gallardo Weil and Gina Costa. We wanted to launch StreetWise as an open group for all mobile street photographers, whatever their gender. Serkin has been a mobile street photographer in New York City since 2010. In 2014, he…
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StreetWise – 24 Hour Street Project – The Interviews by Sheldon Serkin
We are so delighted to publish this fabulous article and series of nine interviews by Sheldon Serkin to our brand new mobile street photography Column StreetWise here at TheAppWhisperer. This differs from our very popular StreetsAhead Column in as much as that is a Women’s only Collective. StreetWise is open to all and we’re excited to publish more details of that very soon. (Last year Laura Peischl covered the #24HourProject within her Column, go here to view) Serkin took part in the third #24HourProject and this year its popularity has really taken off. Not only did Serkin take part but he also contacted a group of photographers who also took…
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Joanne Carter – TheAppWhisperer Speaks at The Photography Show 2015 – Seminar 2
Yesterday I published details of my first talk at The Photography Show 2015, if you missed that (and it was in two parts, please go here and here). Today, I am publishing details of the Second Talk on Day 1. In Talk 2 I wanted to inform the audience of some of the main genres of mobile photography and the specific columns on TheAppWhisperer.com we have, to entice our readers. During the preparation for the Show I contacted MaryJane Sarvis (who edits our mobile macro column), Bobbi McMurry (who edits our APPart column), Jennifer Bracewell (who edits our portraiture column) and Cara Gallardo Weil with Gina Costa (who edit our…