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Royal Recognition for Mobile Art as Fraser Scarfe Appointed First Digital Tour Artist
As TheAppWhisperer, I’ve spent years championing the incredible potential of mobile photography and digital art, so it’s a true delight to witness this transformative moment for our community. His Majesty The King has appointed his very first digital tour artist for an overseas state visit—an honour bestowed upon none other than Fraser Scarfe, a name that will undoubtedly inspire mobile artists everywhere. Scarfe, 38, joined the royal entourage on their recent four-day state visit to Italy, capturing the King and Queen’s journey through Rome and Ravenna using the most versatile of modern canvases—his iPad Mini. The King, himself a passionate watercolourist, reportedly admired Scarfe’s use of digital tools and viewed…
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What Apps Are We Using This Month? with Karen Axelrad
Welcome to TheAppWhisperer’s new section, “what apps are we using this month” series, where we discover which apps you are particularly enjoying. Kicking us off today is non-other than Award Winning Mobile Artist, Karen Axelrad. My name is Karen Axelrad. I’m an American retired architect living in Berlin, Germany. I have two grown sons and two granddaughters. I use many apps, but I will concentrate on the ones I have been using recently that perhaps others haven’t talked as much about. I shoot with an iPhone 13 Pro and process with the iPad Pro. I use Hipstamatic a lot using the setting that gives me the original photo as well as…
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Mobile Artists on Their Artistry – Interview with Deborah Kleven Morbeto
We are delighted to publish the seventh of our new styled interview entitled ‘Mobile Artists on Their Artistry’. Within this interview, we ask highly successful mobile artists twenty questions about their backgrounds, their work, social media, how Covid-19 has influenced their creative life and so much more… Today, we are proud to publish our latest interview with award winning artist, Deborah Kleven Morbeto from Northern Virginia, United States. She has been working full-time as an artist since 2002. Formally trained as a painter, Morbeto enjoys all aspects of creating art. To read the others in this series, please go here. All images ©Deborah Kleven Morbeto
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 9 February 2020
“I’m with Edvard Munch, who said photography can’t compete with painting, because it can’t deal with heaven or hell”, said David Hockney in today’s Sunday Times. I’m inclined to disagree with this and of course, I can point to this weeks showcase to support my case. Our musical choice matches perfectly, love, loss and the nature of reality. Heaven and hell? Oh yes, having lived full lives, if we cannot cure mortality, should we at least die trying…? The one thing humans have to save them of the depths of despair is humour and like many I have a strong one, Hockney does too “Do you know why laughter is…
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Mobile Photography & Art – Flickr/Instagram Group Showcase – 21 April 2019
Earlier this year, I attended the press view of ‘A Fortnight Of Tears’ by and with Tracey Emin, at The White Cube Gallery, London. What has interested me, particularly, since the exhibition are the wide ranging and diverse reviews and critiques of this show. Having spent time speaking with Emin, as well as sharing the exhibition and space with her, I felt closer to this artwork and to her psyche than I ever have before. Many of the reviews were critical, she is an artist who has always attracted harsh critics. Her most infamous work “My Bed” (1988), is in many ways, metaphorically, part of this exhibition. It’s re-inacted as…
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Mobile Photography & Art – My Top Five Apps by Karen Axelrad – Berlin, Germany
My go-to apps are Snapseed which is the one I recommend if you only have one app, Hipstamatic for black and white street photography and for experimenting, Stackables app for texture and formulas that are easy to edit, and Superimpose for tweaking two edits. But all these apps have been discussed by others, so I thought I would elucidate on my five favorite less-known apps. All images ©Karen Axelrad Dianaphoto For random double-exposures which are then enhanced with various filters. Scroll through your camera roll for an accidental coupling then lock one or both photos and try various filters out. The results are fun and surprising. I also save…
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Mobile Photography/Art Pic of the Day (608) via Instagram
Here’s day six hundred and eight of our mobile photography/art Pic of the Day section via Instagram. Each day we will be selecting one image a day for our Pic of the Day section on Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer. To ensure your image receives our attention, please upload it to Instagram with this hashtag – #theappwhisperer Today, we congratulate @sabinegromek – Sabine Gromek, with this breathtaking image entitled ‘Tate Britain Art Gallery, London’. This image is even more special to me because I believe I was with Sabine that day when she took this photograph. I met her at the Tate Britain when she came to London to view…
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Mobile Photography – Streets Ahead Interview – Karen Axelrad – Mobile Street Photography
This week, the Women’s Mobile Street Photography Collective (StreetsAhead) is pleased and honoured to feature Karen Axelrad in our interview segment by our co-editor of this group, Cara Gallardo Weil. Thank you both for this, our readers are going to love it! (foreword by Joanne Carter). “I highly recommend a visit to Karen’s gallery on flickr and her instagram account where you will see some of her other work as well as her street photography”. www.flickr.com/photos/karenaxe/ www.instagram.com/iphotami/ Selfie at the Belvedere in Vienna ©Karen Axelrad Please tell us a little bit about yourself and what you do. Have you always been interested in photography? I grew up in…
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The Best Photography & Art Biographies To Read This Christmas
Last week we published a comprehensive list of The Best Photography and Art books of 2016 and it proved very popular, so much so that some extremely vast social media sites compared it to Time’s – a compliment indeed. Today, we have published The Best Photography & Art Biographies, these we believe you will enjoy too. Sometimes, we like to look at the photographer/artist behind the imagery and this is a great way to switch off and indulge, if you have the opportunity over the Christmas break. I do hope you enjoy this. If there are any others that you have read, that you think should be included, please add…
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The Best Photography & Art Books of 2016
Of course we all love our mobile devices and reading books on them is second nature to creating art but sometimes, we also really like to curl up with a really good traditional book with real paper. I have selected some of the very best photography and Art books released this year. I am sure any one of these, you would love to receive. Take a look and if you feel there are some others that I have missed, please add them to the comments below.
