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Brought to Light – Mobile Photography/Art Interview with Jeffrey Simpson
Jeffrey Simpson along with his wife are the stars of their own photographs, documenting their lives. Capturing emotions of humour, defiance, modernity and traditionalism. Simpson’s images are intuitive and also introverted and reflective. He is a centred presence, he affords a calmness and tranquility within his art. There is a feeling of heightened documentary, where atmosphere and mystery are key elements. Simpson’s nude photography is respectable, it is not sex. A mark of the educated art lover is the ability to assess nudity in artistic terms alone. From this perspective, we view their nudeness solely as a matter of subtle flesh tones, sophisticated composition with a flurry of deep emotional…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – Sentenced to Life – Clive James
I am a huge fan of Clive James, he made his name as a television critic, essayist and wit but he started as a poet and five years ago he was diagnosed with leukaemia, emphysema and kidney failure – he describes it as ‘the lot’ and he is ending as a poet. There’s a particular story I remember reading about James, it goes like this… One time he was going through a creative dry spell. He had written a play for the London stage and it bombed spectacularly. Not only did it ruin his family financially but it also cost him some dear friends. He fell into the deepest depression…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – St Rose of Lima’s Revenge by Geraldine Clarkson
This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem entitled ‘St Rose of Lima’s Revenge’ by Geraldine Clarkson. This poem was commended in the 2015 National Poetry Competition. Geraldine Clarkson is the winner of the Anne Born Prize 2015. In 2015 she also won the Poetry London Competition, Magma Editors’ Prize and the 2015 Ver Prize. She was included in The Best British Poetry 2014 (Salt) and she was ‘Selected Poet’ in Magma 58. She has two poems in This Line is Not for Turning: An Anthology of Contemporary British Prose Poetry (Cinnamon Press). She was a Writers’ Centre Norwich Escalator winner in 2011 and she was shortlisted…
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APPArt Interview with Brett Chenoweth – Layers of Truth
Please enjoy this interview between our APPArt Editor Bobbi McMurry and Brett Chenoweth who graciously answers questions about his work and process, revealing the complex layers of thought, craft and expression that go into his outpourings. Chenoweth is illustrator and artist who takes his inspiration from his own photographs. These he uses to collage and layer images created with his iPad. “Often, it begins simply by taking a couple images, usually photographs, and playing around with them, the image builds and changes according to its own narrative. I work very intuitively“, explains Chenoweth. (Foreword by Joanne Carter).
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – Ageing- By Ruth Fainlight
I wanted to celebrate my birthday with you this weekend, tomorrow I will be another year older and I am bursting with gratitude to you all. We are fertilised by time thus allowing our individual uniqueness to blossom. Each one of our powerful hearts, illuminate and inspire, enabling us to conjoin and to share. Thank you to each and everyone of you, we are one! This weeks Saturday Poetry, matched with mobile photography/art is a poem aptly entitled ‘Ageing’ by Ruth Fainlight.“Fainlight provided a role model for women poets at a time when sexism and tokenism were nastily predominant” The Guardian. Born in New York in 1931, Fanlight is a…
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Brought to Light – Mobile Photography/Art Interview with Robi Gallardo
Robi Gallardo’s photography shows an instinctive grasp of narrative and metaphor. Each image carefully composed and produced to accentuate the images in his head. His restless vision and relentless curiosity is conclusive evidence of the important visual chronicler that we have before us. Gallardo’s photographs demonstrate an instinctively gifted individual pursuing his own creative journey with clarity and brilliance. This is our new interview section for mobile photographers and mobile artists and we hope to be filling it very soon with vast explosions of thought and imagery. These questions are designed to explore the artist behind the work, to get to know them a little more intimately. We recently published…
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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – ‘Having a Coke with You’ by Frank O’Hara
As it is Valentine’s weekend we thought it would be prudent to bring you this romantically beautiful poem. In his book, The Last Avant-Garde: The Making of the New York School of Poets, David Lehman correctly comments about O’Hara’s poetry: “The surface of O’Hara’s poems is so dazzling, with taste so fine and sensibility so rare and appealing, that it comes as a surprise to investigate and realize that there are depths of meaning in his offhanded poems that seem as disarmingly immediate and perishable as telephone calls. The prejudice against humor and lightheartedness in poetry has caused some readers to overlook not only the lyric pathos informing O’Hara’s work…
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Mobile Photography / Art Exhibition – Freedom of Panorama in Paris – On Until 9th March, 2016
Freedom of panorama is an exception to copyright, first introduced into German law at the end of the XIXth century. It considers that all artworks (including buildings and sculptures) located in the public domain can be photographed or filmed without the authorization of the author. France, Belgium Italy and Greece are the only countries in Europe without freedom of panorama in their legislation. In principle any reproduction of the Atomium, the Pyramide du Louvre, and the Eiffel Tower lights at night are illegal without prior authorization. It is within this framework that the Mobile Camera Club in Paris has decided to gather photographers from various countries whose main photographic subject…
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Mobile Art – APPart Interview with Eliza Badoiu
Eliza Badoiu’s art is beautiful beyond measure, her field of vision is limitless. I have long been a fan of her work, her ravishing vision is reunited with earlier decades of her life, climaxing with overwhelming virtue. Sultry, secretive, knotted and sometimes eerie, her images are almost hypnotic. I am delighted to present this wonderful interview by our AppArt Editor, Bobbi McMurry with Badoiu, enjoy… (foreword by Joanne Carter). To view her earlier TrueView Video Interviews – please go here. Contact Details: Facebook “Captivating. Mysterious. Intriguing. Moving. Emotive. If you aren’t familiar with AppArtist Eliza Badoiu, you need to be. I think there are but a few whose work just…
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‘Brought To Light’ – Mobile Photography / Art Interview with Roger Guetta (Draman)
There is something intensely romantic about Roger Guetta and his imagery. One of the finest mobile artists in the world today, Guetta is a painter of the mysteries of perception and being. His vision, accurately understood, is one of the most liberating ever created in mobile art. This is our new interview section for mobile photographers and mobile artists and we hope to be filling it very soon with vast explosions of thought and imagery. These questions are designed to explore the artist behind the work, to get to know them a little more intimately. We recently published our first ‘Brought to Light’ Interview with Andrea Bigiarini, Founder of the…
